venge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of venge
1250–1300; Middle English vengen < Old French veng ( i ) er < Latin vindicāre; vindicate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Kirk produces a lush, fruity new-style cabernet at Venge Vineyards.
From Washington Post
And the father-and-son duo of Nils and Kirk Venge, whose family name is synonymous with Napa Valley cabernet, make wines in different styles.
From Washington Post
With the exclamations they made as they carried out their atrocity — “Allahu Akbar!” and “On a vengé le prophète Mohamed, on a tué Charlie Hebdo!”
From Salon
At one end of the boulevard, propped next to an F1 car, is the £25,000 Specialized S-Works Venge bike ridden by Mark Cavendish in the 2011 Tour de France, which McLaren helped design.
From The Guardian
Ah! shades of Yarrell, Morris, Bewick, Wood, Swoop down from Nephelococcygian eyrie With legions of bird-phantoms, Roc-ghosts and spectral bantams, And venge the Vandal sporting-man's vagary, Wrought on your race in Cornwall's bay of Bude!
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
