Crossword clues for revenged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revenge \Re*venge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revenged, p. pr. & vb. n. Revenging.] [OF. revengier, F. revancher; pref. re- re- + OF. vengier to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, Vengerance, and cf. Revindicate.]
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To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
To revenge the death of our fathers.
--Ld. Berners.The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
--Dryden.Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
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To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Syn: To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (misspelling of avenged English) 2 (context obsolete English) (en-past of: revenge)
Usage examples of "revenged".
Yet in the siege of Amorium about seventy thousand Moslems had perished: their loss had been revenged by the slaughter of thirty thousand Christians, and the sufferings of an equal number of captives, who were treated as the most atrocious criminals.
The fate of Zadenghel was revenged by the courage and fortune of Susneus, who ascended the throne under the name of Segued, and more vigorously prosecuted the pious enterprise of his kinsman.
Of course the fleet would have revenged us but we would have been pushing up daisies and that's a pretty bloody boring thought.
The Goths, in their last moments, were revenged by the destruction of a city, second only to Rome in size and opulence, in the splendor of its buildings, or the number of its inhabitants.
The blow was instantly revenged by the faithful Goths: they transported their dying monarch seven miles beyond the scene of his disgrace.
That is truth, said Sir Sagramore and Sir Dodinas, for we will be revenged of the despite ye have done to us.
Then was Sir Dinadan passing wroth that he might not be revenged of that knight.
Sir, said Sir Gawaine's brethren, let see how ye will or may be revenged, and ye shall find us ready.
Sir knight, said they all, well have ye done, and well have ye revenged us, wherefore we pray you tell us your name.
And when Alisander was whole, then he repented him of his oath, for he might not be revenged upon King Mark.
And if it were not at the reverence of your highness I should now have been revenged upon Sir Gawaine and his brethren.
For an Sir Launcelot had been here soon we should have been revenged upon the false knights.
And therefore, though I revenged that fall, take ye no displeasure therein, for he is to me such a friend that I may not see him shamed.
Gramercy, said Sir Aglovale, and ye shall see his death revenged lightly.
And this Sir Bellangere revenged the death of his father Alisander, and Sir Tristram slew King Mark, and La Beale Isoud died swooning upon the corse of Sir Tristram, whereof was great pity.