as in avenging
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for
a romance novel featuring a hotheaded hero who is ever ready to venge every affront to the family's honor
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avenging
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Police now believe that the men who shot and killed Hughes were members of a Central Richmond gang, deadset on avenging a comrade who was gunned down in Oakland 10 days earlier.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026 -
Smith positions the avenging goddess in a horror-show hall of mirrors, with a closed-circuit video feed focused on Vindicatrix’s upraised arm gesturing in oath.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Venging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venging. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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