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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Hiroyuki Sanada plays Scorpion, an undead warrior hellbent on avenging the deaths of him and his family at the hands of Sub-Zero.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026 -
Current political events offer a seemingly endless procession of cruelties worth avenging.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Venging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venging. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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