Word Meanings - VENGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To avenge; to punish; to revenge. See Avenge, and Revenge. Chaucer. "To venge me, as I may." Shak.

Related words: (words related to VENGE)

• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• VENGE
  To avenge; to punish; to revenge. See Avenge, and Revenge. Chaucer. "To venge me, as I may." Shak.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• AVENGEMENT
  The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. Milton.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• VENGEMENT
  Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. Spenser.
• VENGEABLE
  Revengeful; deserving revenge. Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv.
• AVENGER
  1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. 2. One who takes vengeance. Milton.
• AVENGE
  1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• AVENGEFUL
  Vengeful. Spenser.
• VENGER
  An avenger. Spenser.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• VENGEFUL
  Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.
• AVENGEANCE
  Vengeance.
• PUNISH
  1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a
• DISPUNISHABLE
  Without penal restraint; not punishable. Swift.
• SCAVENGER
  A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle , any beetle