avenge
English
/əˈvɛnd͡ʒ/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
- (intransitive) To take vengeance.
- (transitive) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English avengen derived from Old French avengier derived from Latin vindicō, vindicāre root from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (chase, pursue, suppress, persecute, crave, hunt, reach towards, seek).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weyh₁-
Gloss
chase, pursue, suppress, persecute, crave, hunt, reach towards, seek
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- avengeable English
- avengeance English
- avengeful English
- avengement English
- avenger English
- avengeress English
- avengest English
- avengeth English
- unavengeable English
- vaino Finnish
- Vienna Latin
- venor Latin
- vim Latin
- vindex Latin
- vindico Latin
- vindicātus Latin
- vindicō, vindicāre Latin
- vis Latin
- οἶμος Ancient Greek
- ἴφιος Ancient Greek
- *-ós Proto-Indo-European
- *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European
- *weh₁y- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *weydʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *weyh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wiHrós, wih₁rós Proto-Indo-European
- *woyh₁-éh₂-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *wéyh₁s Proto-Indo-European
- *waiþō Proto-Germanic
- avengen Middle English
- *stъrviti Proto-Slavic
- *vojinъ Proto-Slavic
- avengier Old French
- vengier Old French
- vertu Old French
- geweide Middle High German
- stërvis Albanian