Usually means: Seeking justice for a wrong.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. avenging: Merriam-Webster
  2. avenging: Collins English Dictionary
  3. avenging: Vocabulary.com
  4. Avenging, avenging: Wordnik
  5. avenging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. avenging: Wiktionary
  7. Avenging, avenging: Dictionary.com
  8. avenging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Avenging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Avenging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. avenging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. avenging: FreeDictionary.org
  13. avenging: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. avenging: Merriam-Webster

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (avenging)

▸ noun:  The act by which somebody is avenged.

Similar:
vindicatory, retributive, retributory, reciprocal, revenging, avengement, revindication, vindication, revengement, payback, more...

Opposite:
forgiving, pardoning, excusing

Phrases:
Avenging Spirit, Avenging Angelo, Avenging Force, avenging angel, avenging prior grievances, more...

Adjectives:
french, covenant, tragic, utmost, worth, divine, personal, merciful, mighty, lawful, symbolical

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     blood red,     dark red,     burgundy, more...



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Similar:
vindicatory, retributive, retributory, reciprocal, revenging, avengement, revindication, vindication, revengement, payback, more...

Opposite:
forgiving, pardoning, excusing

Phrases:
Avenging Spirit, Avenging Angelo, Avenging Force, avenging angel, avenging prior grievances, more...

Adjectives:
french, covenant, tragic, utmost, worth, divine, personal, merciful, mighty, lawful, symbolical

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     blood red,     dark red,     burgundy, more...



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