v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Avenged (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Avenging (&unr_;). ] [ OF. avengier; L. ad + vindicare to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See Vengeance. ] 1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. [ 1913 Webster ]

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Avenge, Revenge. To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character. [ 1913 Webster ]

I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take vengeance. Levit. xix. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vengeance; revenge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vengeance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vengeful. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who takes vengeance. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female avenger. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To revenge the death of our fathers. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take vengeance; -- with upon. [ Obs. ] “A bird that will revenge upon you all.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Revenge now goes
To lay a complot to betray thy foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vengeance; revenge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

May my hands . . .
Never brandish more revengeful steel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*venge"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*venge"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unrevenged. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Revenge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who revenges. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to salvage (usable items or material) from discarded or waste material. [ PJC ]

3. To remove (burned gases) from the cylinder after a working stroke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. (Internal-combustion Engines) To remove the burned gases from the cylinder after a working stroke; as, this engine does not scavenge well. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. scavager an officer with various duties, originally attending to scavage, fr. OE. & E. scavage. See Scavage, Show, v. ] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scavenger beetle (Zool.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. --
Scavenger crab (Zool.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. --
Scavenger's daughter [ corrupt. of Skevington's daughter ], an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from the nostrils, and sometimes from the hands and feet. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a game in which individuals or teams are given a list of items and must go out, gather them together without purchasing them, and bring them back; the first person or team to return with the complete list is the winner. The items are sometimes common but often of a humorous sort. [ PJC ]

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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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Revengeful; deserving revenge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ F. vengeance, fr. venger to avenge, L. vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, Revenge, Vindicate. ] 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. [ 1913 Webster ]

To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35. [ 1913 Webster ]

To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Harm; mischief. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What a vengeance, or
What the vengeance, what! -- emphatically. [ Obs. ] “But what a vengeance makes thee fly!” Hudibras. “What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair?” Shak. --
With a vengeance, (a) with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance. [ Colloq. ] (b) with even greater intensity; as, to return one's insult with a vengeance. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

adv. Extremely; excessively. [ Obs. ] “He loves that vengeancely.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. “Vengeful ire.” Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ OF. vengement. ] Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An avenger. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]