Usually means: Seeks retribution for a wrong.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. avenges: Merriam-Webster
  2. avenges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. avenges: Vocabulary.com
  4. Avenges, avenges: Wordnik
  5. avenges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. avenges: Wiktionary
  7. avenges: Dictionary.com
  8. avenges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. avenges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avenges: Legal dictionary

(Note: See avenge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (avenge)

verb:  (transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
verb:  (reflexive) To revenge oneself (on or upon someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To take vengeance.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
noun:  (archaic) An act of vengeance; a revenge.
▸ Also see avenge

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