Avengeful
to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for:
to avenge a grave insult.
to take vengeance on behalf of:
he avenged his brother.
verb
(usually transitive) to inflict a punishment in retaliation for (harm, injury, etc) done to (a person or persons); take revenge for or on behalf of: to avenge a crime, to avenge a murdered friend
v.
late 14c., from anglo-french avenger, old french avengier, from a- “to” (see ad-) + vengier “take revenge” (modern french venger), from latin vindicare “to claim, avenge, punish” (see vindicate). related: avenged; avenging.
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