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# avenge

«avenge» in Mova's school dictionary: **To punish someone in return for a wrong they did to you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (avenges, avenged, avenging)

### meaning for a pupil

To punish someone in return for a wrong they did to you or to someone you love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avenge/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hero or child who pays back a wrong done to a family member.

### examples

- The brothers swore to avenge their father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avenge/#x1)
- Even the weakest may find a way to avenge a wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avenge/#x2)
- She wanted to avenge herself on the thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avenge/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.113/)
- ['Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1096/)
- [And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.233/)
- [The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.709/)
- [Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.166/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «avenge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avenge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.