venge

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

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^[1], act 1, scene 2:

     To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.

• venger

• avenge
• revenge
• vengeance
• vengeful
• vengesome

• “venge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “venge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “venge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Negev

venge

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