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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)
- (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.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “venge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “venge”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “venge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
French
Verb
venge
- inflection of venger:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative