venge

See also: vengé

English

Etymology

From Middle English vengen, from Old French venger, from Latin vindicare (to avenge, vindicate).

Verb

venge (third-person singular simple present venges, present participle venging, simple past and past participle venged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To avenge; to punish; to revenge.
    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 1, scene 2:
      To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.

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French

Verb

venge

  1. inflection of venger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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