verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To avenge; to punish; to revenge. obsolete, transitive

   "To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death."

Example

More examples

"To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death."

Etymology

From Middle English vengen, from Old French venger, from Latin vindicare (“to avenge, vindicate”).

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