What is another word for avenge?
1068 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɐvˈɛnd͡ʒ], [ ɐvˈɛndʒ], [ ɐ_v_ˈɛ_n_dʒ]
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Similar words for avenge:
- other relevant words (noun)
- competition (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- punish (verb)
- repay (verb)
- retaliate (verb)
- revenge (verb)
- visit (verb)
- wrack (verb)
- other synonyms
- destroy
- other relevant words
- revenge
- visit
- wrack
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Avenge:
n.
• Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• competition (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb) • punish (verb)- discipline,
- Keelhaul,
- try,
- confine,
- correct,
- execute,
- lambaste,
- incarcerate,
- chasten,
- persecute,
- distress,
- crucify,
- pillory,
- judge,
- sentence,
- castigate,
- reprise,
- torture,
- afflict,
- fine,
- chastise,
- imprison,
- agonize,
- burden,
- anguish.
- re turn,
- returned the compliment,
- evens the score,
- returning compliment,
- returning the compliment,
- re-pay,
- Re-turn,
- evened score,
- re-quite,
- getting revenge,
- evening the score,
- got revenge,
- gotten revenge,
- re turns,
- pays back,
- squaring accounts,
- re quite,
- re-pays,
- re paid,
- payed back,
- return compliment,
- made reprisal,
- re-paid,
- settling score,
- settling the score,
- squares accounts,
- re-turns,
- settled the score,
- evening score,
- settles score,
- re-turned,
- returned compliment,
- gets revenge,
- re pay,
- makes reprisal,
- returns compliment,
- even score,
- re paying,
- settle score,
- re pays,
- re-turning,
- evened the score,
- settled score,
- evens score,
- settles the score,
- re-paying,
- re turning,
- squared accounts,
- gat revenge,
- making reprisal,
- returns the compliment.
- redress,
- reciprocate,
- retort,
- respond,
- counterblow,
- countercharge,
- exchange,
- counteract,
- return fire,
- vindicate,
- Retribute,
- counter.
- be-falls,
- be falling,
- brought down on,
- forcing upon,
- be-falling,
- descends up on,
- brings down on,
- forcing up on,
- be-fall,
- be fallen,
- forces up on,
- be-fell,
- forces upon,
- be fall,
- descending up on,
- descended upon,
- descends upon,
- descending upon,
- descended up on,
- forced up on,
- be fell,
- be falls,
- be-fallen,
- bringing down on,
- force up on,
- descend up on.
Other synonyms:
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- wreak.
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- get back.
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- right.
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- pay.
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- fix.
- gratify,
- fill,
- bailiwick,
- burthen,
- hold fast,
- make headway,
- tied,
- cane,
- tick,
- chat,
- dissolve,
- puppy love,
- catch,
- musical rhythm,
- demonstrate,
- replace,
- palliate,
- overmaster,
- convulse,
- realise,
- shew,
- heel counter,
- raciness,
- see,
- justify,
- appearance,
- sweep over,
- solve,
- reprize,
- endorse,
- disregard,
- can,
- wage,
- berate,
- crushed leather,
- yet,
- collation,
- expunge,
- book binding,
- fall,
- read,
- furbish up,
- controvert,
- crystalise,
- indemnity,
- come,
- comport,
- all right,
- brush aside,
- shell,
- root,
- sea wrack,
- getting even,
- brighten,
- morsel,
- remonstrate,
- aright,
- thinker,
- seize with teeth,
- hurt,
- sterilise,
- harebrained,
- call,
- chomp,
- change,
- stimulate,
- finely,
- repeat,
- compaction,
- game,
- chitchat,
- suppress,
- perplex,
- locating,
- gain,
- medicate,
- devote,
- baffle,
- measure,
- account,
- bound,
- hole,
- get ahead,
- replication,
- all,
- excited,
- anticipate,
- claver,
- shine,
- sojourn,
- loading,
- payment,
- ensconce,
- determine,
- mulct,
- pass judgment,
- sack,
- hold in,
- rag,
- effort,
- impress,
- give notice,
- psyche,
- let,
- outfox,
- optic,
- retributive,
- thrum,
- amnesty,
- litigate,
- sore,
- bedevil,
- desex,
- fit,
- ticket,
- decline,
- correctly,
- fifty-fifty,
- excruciate,
- remand,
- music,
- trounce,
- advance,
- lambast,
- forestall,
- restore,
- chide,
- fire,
- profits,
- drub,
- reparation,
- fasten,
- ruin,
- finalize,
- square up,
- thresh about,
- commence,
- lick,
- assoil,
- posit,
- repair,
- alright,
- overcompensate,
- comeback,
- establish,
- bear in mind,
- objurgate,
- rebut,
- equalise,
- excise,
- quiver,
- demented,
- enlighten,
- flush,
- eyeball,
- detain,
- mend,
- vote out,
- reprimand,
- bond,
- vengefulness,
- scold,
- convey,
- backward,
- countermine,
- ii,
- have the best,
- discharge,
- grade,
- legal action,
- renovate,
- endeavour,
- assume,
- get over,
- settee,
- reinforcement,
- make,
- get the best,
- taste,
- unclutter,
- load,
- straighten out,
- agony,
- weight down,
- grievance,
- stress,
- carry through,
- discount,
- authorize,
- discover,
- gain ground,
- chance on,
- doctor,
- toss,
- bind,
- medicinal drug,
- rhythm,
- scratch,
- crash,
- dumbfound,
- return the compliment,
- parry,
- listen,
- sack up,
- shrive,
- creative thinker,
- practice of medicine,
- powerful,
- indemnification,
- very well,
- begin,
- engender,
- desexualize,
- round,
- intellect,
- boom,
- garner,
- gossip,
- behave,
- heartbeat,
- deport,
- backwards,
- time,
- attain,
- idea,
- fixate,
- calf love,
- indorse,
- bankrupt,
- essay,
- rearward,
- blast,
- backbone,
- study,
- snack,
- flummox,
- gear up,
- circumvent,
- advantage,
- saddle,
- burn,
- produce,
- doom,
- pull in,
- fulfil,
- switch over,
- bushed,
- bat,
- free pardon,
- onus,
- twisting,
- hear,
- chew out,
- break,
- evaluate,
- give the axe,
- guess,
- point,
- sharpness,
- capture,
- counterpunch,
- confabulate,
- disturbed,
- decently,
- exculpated,
- conform to,
- finalise,
- pound,
- cook,
- sire,
- exonerated,
- stake,
- authorise,
- lag,
- experience,
- wages,
- lecture,
- distortion,
- enclose,
- limit,
- justly,
- flop,
- open,
- free,
- show up,
- carry,
- incumbrance,
- heart,
- dead,
- rack up,
- collide with,
- scramble,
- press,
- nonplus,
- decide,
- nail,
- fall upon,
- jurist,
- get revenge,
- fuck off,
- rebuke,
- readable,
- chit-chat,
- receive,
- wholly,
- bewilder,
- test,
- specify,
- brain,
- drop,
- find,
- mosh,
- succeed,
- set out,
- situate,
- absolved,
- gauge,
- rightfulness,
- squeeze,
- thump,
- natural action,
- evidence,
- beg off,
- prick,
- clean-cut,
- core,
- vanquish,
- center,
- reply,
- squelch,
- mint,
- ticktock,
- overtake,
- endeavor,
- slam dance,
- confab,
- picture,
- salary,
- restrict,
- prove,
- reconcile,
- muddle,
- thresh,
- subject area,
- remediation,
- belt,
- undermine,
- properly,
- deuce,
- one,
- buzz off,
- countercheck,
- effect,
- rectify,
- sexual conquest,
- rationalize,
- subside,
- settle the score,
- put behind bars,
- gaol,
- pulse,
- apology,
- arrest,
- huffy,
- insane,
- medical specialty,
- recapitulate,
- second,
- licking,
- define,
- set,
- flap,
- top,
- 2,
- bang,
- ready,
- localization,
- net,
- medication,
- constrain,
- start out,
- subdue,
- go,
- squash,
- tally,
- break down,
- take root,
- have,
- fulfill,
- bring forth,
- settle down,
- develop,
- record,
- start,
- pronounce,
- overrefinement,
- head,
- elucidate,
- central,
- unrestrained,
- usher,
- even off,
- plump for,
- pass,
- percipient,
- make for,
- try on,
- make reprisal,
- flail,
- work stoppage,
- vex,
- meter,
- puzzle,
- eve,
- rearwards,
- good,
- apologise,
- bring in,
- work over,
- retaliation,
- gage,
- sink,
- cause,
- neutralize,
- binding,
- mark,
- charge,
- counterbalance,
- amercement,
- come through,
- obtain,
- crystalize,
- cool,
- crystallise,
- smash-up,
- delirious,
- pay back,
- rejoinder,
- beget,
- judgment of conviction,
- well-defined,
- nous,
- play,
- crazy,
- pulsate,
- condone,
- fixture,
- kill,
- hind,
- rack,
- demo,
- knock cold,
- rear,
- send packing,
- sting,
- still,
- revenge,
- chance upon,
- bawl out,
- proper,
- brainsick,
- take in,
- prison term,
- mortify,
- mighty,
- examine,
- get the better of,
- substitute,
- grow,
- move,
- oppose,
- refund,
- win back,
- clear-cut,
- sterilize,
- dash,
- alibi,
- go down,
- repay,
- square accounts,
- chaffer,
- interchange,
- punt,
- impinge on,
- rap,
- fight,
- strain,
- secure,
- resolve,
- sick,
- attempt,
- scotch,
- self-justification,
- adjust,
- let off,
- remedy,
- patch up,
- realize,
- location,
- lam,
- set up,
- unbalanced,
- field of study,
- countervail,
- even up,
- frantic,
- try out,
- fight down,
- dress down,
- put to death,
- sustain,
- gravel,
- label,
- exquisitely,
- restitution,
- give the sack,
- dun,
- switch,
- beatnik,
- straiten,
- depict,
- happen upon,
- activity,
- bang up,
- deliver the goods,
- incur,
- touch on,
- field,
- clobber,
- ain,
- fend for,
- cadence,
- exhaust,
- stick with,
- completely,
- throttle,
- knock,
- decent,
- jail,
- spinal column,
- bushel,
- strickle,
- right wing,
- compensation,
- return,
- present,
- rightfield,
- damages,
- pose,
- exculpation,
- vindicatory,
- designate,
- represent,
- generate,
- usher out,
- jug,
- infatuation,
- answer,
- beware,
- throw out,
- slam,
- impose,
- travel to,
- sample,
- stick,
- extenuate,
- run,
- centre,
- pungency,
- sabotage,
- beat up,
- register,
- ignore,
- bash,
- aim,
- smashingly,
- regular,
- suffer,
- level,
- riposte,
- carry out,
- take,
- antagonistic,
- acquire,
- approximate,
- pain,
- light,
- live up to,
- savage,
- restrain,
- agonise,
- unclouded,
- sue,
- shed light on,
- unhinged,
- weight,
- drive,
- entirely,
- smasher,
- nail down,
- localisation,
- brush off,
- unmortgaged,
- pulsation,
- honor,
- evince,
- call down,
- even out,
- assay,
- vindicated,
- kayo,
- rationalise,
- come upon,
- flog,
- decipherable,
- right hand,
- crystallize,
- adhere,
- tabulator,
- plunk for,
- buy off,
- antagonize,
- bet on,
- honour,
- paying back,
- torturing,
- immure,
- mess,
- whole,
- oppress,
- make up,
- take care,
- come across,
- jam,
- take up,
- contract,
- indemnify,
- get down,
- earnings,
- chew up,
- amends,
- tap,
- spiteful,
- hinder,
- seek,
- bugger off,
- ok,
- conciliate,
- payoff,
- bit,
- come to,
- sideboard,
- steady down,
- disburse,
- dorsum,
- fixing,
- backrest,
- retributory,
- send away,
- square off,
- retaliative,
- slash,
- terminate,
- clearly,
- torment,
- master,
- bring home the bacon,
- weaken,
- equalize,
- bring,
- deposit,
- stupefy,
- back up,
- commute,
- accomplish,
- right field,
- conviction,
- evening,
- antagonise,
- render,
- mending,
- rejoin,
- judgement,
- express,
- cream,
- visit,
- veracious,
- condition,
- chew the fat,
- straining,
- hunky-dory,
- prepare,
- call on the carpet,
- come back,
- oculus,
- sort out,
- overreach,
- get under one's skin,
- musical score,
- adjudicate,
- delicately,
- affect,
- pay up,
- frustrate,
- activeness,
- reinforce,
- explain,
- seduce,
- maintain,
- encumbrance,
- outsmart,
- rachis,
- beat out,
- middle,
- nock,
- shoot the breeze,
- mystify,
- right-hand,
- descend,
- overwhelm,
- arrive,
- have words,
- jactitate,
- amaze,
- thrash about,
- military action,
- conduct,
- telephone exchange,
- work,
- ante up,
- meet,
- vote down,
- commutation,
- bring down,
- despiteful,
- follow,
- react,
- tucker out,
- perform,
- foresee,
- testify,
- vertebral column,
- push aside,
- light up,
- display,
- kettle of fish,
- condemnation,
- bust up,
- exempt,
- spine,
- wreck,
- ticktack,
- induce,
- right on,
- give,
- suffering,
- illuminate,
- chatter,
- overhead,
- cleared,
- grudge,
- jaw,
- give back,
- champion,
- tucker,
- take to task,
- desexualise,
- gist,
- judgment,
- tame,
- subvert,
- frustration,
- unsex,
- cover,
- yield,
- process,
- call in,
- pull ahead,
- bear witness,
- whelm,
- essence,
- altogether,
- evaluator,
- rally,
- fetch,
- eventide,
- hold,
- father,
- possess,
- relieve,
- temper,
- shoot down,
- support,
- distraint,
- go under,
- earn,
- subject,
- insect bite,
- convert,
- metre,
- mightily,
- redeem,
- heed,
- ripe,
- displace,
- all in,
- all the way,
- totally,
- action at law,
- crunch,
- condemn,
- check,
- buffet,
- substitution,
- outwit,
- walk out,
- trammel,
- locate,
- slump,
- scram,
- smash up,
- pickle,
- run into,
- justice,
- inspect,
- coin,
- natter,
- indicate,
- paid back,
- natural process,
- bear,
- mother,
- exhibit,
- clean,
- guard,
- train,
- ten-strike,
- gibbet,
- subject field,
- action mechanism,
- smite,
- estimate,
- remuneration,
- draw,
- medicament,
- wash up,
- clear up,
- correction,
- mash,
- winnings,
- put away,
- set about,
- force out,
- light upon,
- liquidate,
- bunk,
- surmount,
- okay,
- drum,
- even the score,
- become.
- sticks to,
- venging,
- stick to,
- give just desserts,
- be out for blood,
- fix one's wagon,
- stuck to,
- settle with,
- turn the tables on,
- settle up,
- paid off,
- pay back in spades,
- give comeuppance.
- score,
- retribution,
- unavenged,
- reprisal,
- requital,
- exact retribution,
- inflict,
- repayment for,
- strike back,
- amerce,
- compensate,
- stick it to,
- satisfy,
- avenge oneself,
- Avengement,
- wreckage,
- take vengeance,
- take revenge,
- come back at,
- remunerate,
- Venge,
- vengeance,
- payback,
- wreak vengeance,
- revanche,
- take satisfaction,
- pay out,
- recompense,
- get even,
- avenging,
- settle,
- defend,
- settle a score,
- avenged,
- make amends for.
How to use "Avenge" in context?
When something bad happens to you, the natural instinct is to want to avenge the pain. The urge to seek retribution is sometimes hard to control, and in some cases it can lead to poor decisions. It can be difficult to know when it is appropriate to take revenge, but there are some situations where it is essential.
Here are five times when taking revenge is the right thing to do:
If someone has wronged you, you have the right to exact revenge. This can be done in many ways, including verbal attacks, damaging property, or even physical assault.
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Homophones for Avenge:
- aphonic, abeyance, appanage, apennines, avens, apanage, avianize, avianise, avionics, abience, avionic, apneic, apnoeic, abnaki, apomixis, affiance.
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