Vengeance vs. Avenge
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Difference Between Vengeance and Avenge
Vengeancenoun
Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
Avengenoun
A vengeance; a revenge.
Vengeancenoun
Desire for revenge.
Avengeverb
(transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
to avenge the murder of his brotherVengeancenoun
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life;
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the LordFor vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revengehe swore vengeance on the man who betrayed himthe swiftness of divine retributionAvengeverb
To take vengeance.
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Avengeverb
(archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
Avengeverb
take revenge for a perceived wrong;
He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
