avenges in English

verb
1
inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another).
his determination to avenge the murder of his brother
synonyms:requitepunishrepaypay backrevengetake revenge fortake vengeance forexact retribution forget even forretaliate for
verb

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1. Grendel’s horrible mother avenges her son’s death but is also defeated and killed by Beowulf

2. Nouns for avenge include avenge, avengeance, avengeaunce, avenger, Avengeress, Avengeresses, avengers, avenges, revendge, revenge, revengeance, revengefulness

3. After Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon, Aegisthus justifies his involvement by saying that the murder of Agamemnon also avenges Atreus’s crime against Aegisthus’s family.

4. Others say she avenges herself of the insult offered by her erstwhile lover by luring fishermen and other sailors to their doom.