venge

American

[venj] / vɛndʒ /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

venged, venging

to avenge.

venge British

/ vɛndʒ /

verb

(tr) an archaic word for avenge

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Etymology

Origin of venge

1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; see vindicate

Example Sentences

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The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King 6-1, 6-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

In season Rinaldo comes to venge the secret treason.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

Then, losell Locrine, look unto thy self, Thrasimachus will venge this injury.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

I am not of Dr. Hickes's mind, Qu'il venge.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

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