avenge
verb (used with object)
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for.
was avenging
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past progressiveof avenge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Richard was born disabled; Hamlet was avenging a murder.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was shot in a theater in Washington, by a fanatic named Booth, who imagined that he was avenging wrongs of the South.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
While the towns on the Isle and the Lot were yielding to his son, Edward III. was avenging the capture of Berwick by a winter campaign in the Lothians.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
And this pretence that he was stealing in a righteous cause, that he was avenging the wrongs that had been done to his countrymen,—why, it was the rankest hypocrisy!
From The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco
