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Venge

Venge \Venge\, v. t. [F. venger. See Vengeance.] To avenge; to punish; to revenge. [Obs.] See Avenge, and Revenge.
--Chaucer. ``To venge me, as I may.''
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
venge

"avenge," c.1300, from Old French vengier "revenge, avenge, punish," from Latin vindicare "avenge, vindicate" (see vindication). Related: Venged; venging.

Wiktionary
venge

vb. (context obsolete English) To avenge; to punish; to revenge.

Usage examples of "venge".

On top of that, the lengths of each stick were divided into shorthand sections: the relay list, action or venge details, casualties, and so on.

This ride was as much an excuse to go home as it was to ride as venge healer.

Then the voice that had ordered the riders to the venge spoke her name instead.

By then our venge was getting the upper hand of the raiders, and he fled.

The one who had herded her away from the venge, then said her name like a promise.

Sticks were for quick messages: raider strikes, venges, urgent missives from the Lloroi.

He had ridden the venges for twelve decades before he gave up his blade to save what was left of his soul.

I stay out of more venges than I ride on, Tule, and I try to stay back from the action.

After the assassination of Villiam of Orange, Farnese has become a venging dragon for Spain and poses a threat to England.

Gray clouds scudded across the eastern sky, chased by the howling wind that swirled through the courtyard like a venging wraith, slapping shutters and scouring the frozen earth of all debris.

WIND HOWLED like a venging fury against the stone walls of Faulder Castle, probing each crack and gap until it seemed that its icy breath intruded into every chamber and hall.

Incited to action against this blatant intrusion into their domain, the men moved en masse to take her, and Elise suffered a wave of prickling, sickening horror as she saw herself being torn apart by the venging masters.

Though Justin slashed and hacked with all the venging fervor of his years, his weapon was ever repelled by ball or chain.

She had lost the haughtiness of the earlier moments and waxed eager to flee this venging, threatening minx who had gained from some source an unshakable resolve and now was proving a fierce and dangerous foe.

In the next instant she drew a breath to scream, and visions of a venging horde descending upon him from the house promptly filled his head.