avenge

English

From Old French avengier, from a- (“upon”) + vengier, from Latin vindicō.

avenge (plural avenges)

avenge (third-person singular simple present avenges, present participle avenging, simple past and past participle avenged)

(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 brother
- Milton
  Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
(intransitive, obsolete) To take vengeance.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Leviticus 19:18:
  
  Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
(archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
- Bishop Hall
  thy judgment in avenging thine enemies

to take vengeance for

Arabic: اِنْتَقَمَ‎‎ (intaqama)
Aromanian: arãzgan
Belarusian: по́мсціць impf (pómscicʹ)
Bulgarian: отмъщавам (bg) (otmǎštavam)
Catalan: venjar (ca)
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 報仇 (zh), 报仇 (zh) (bàochóu), 復仇 (zh), 复仇 (zh) (fùchóu)
Czech: pomstít se, mstít se
Danish: hævne
Dutch: wreken (nl), wraak nemen
Finnish: kostaa (fi)
French: venger (fr)
Friulian: svindicâ
Galician: vingar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: rächen (de), ahnden (de)
Greek: εκδικούμαι (el) (ekdikoúmai)
Hungarian: megbosszul (hu)
Irish: díoltas a imirt ar, éiric a bhaint amach i/de
Italian: vendicare (it)
Japanese: 復讐をする (ja) (ふくしゅうをする, fukushū o suru), かたきを討つ (かたきをうつ, kataki o utsu), あだを討つ (あだをうつ, ada o utsu)
Korean: 복수하다 (ko) (boksuhada)
Latin: vindicō, ulcīscor, persequor (la), pūniō

to treat revengefully

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