The word "avenge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that you are seeking retribution or revenge, usually for an injustice. Example sentence: The people of the town vowed to avenge their fallen leader.
In reality, the Tory leadership had been determined to avenge their defeats at the hands of the miners in the 1970s and had prepared to break the NUM just as in the chilling words of Nigel Lawson, the government had prepared to "face the threat of Hitler in the late 1930s".
Al-Qaida has moved to reassert its battered authority, appointing as its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian militant mastermind who has vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden with a September 11-style mass attack.
They stopped a grand slam bid by Ireland in its tracks and helped avenge a heavy defeat by the champions in last season's competition.
Ahmed's presence at the house was further evidence of the Grainger family's desire to "avenge" Grainger's death, said Giladi.
Farnborough manager Spencer Day went into their Conference South six-pointer looking to avenge Bath City's 7-4 win last month.
She cannot get rid of bitterness to avenge herself.
Their mission to avenge remains on course.
What a chance to avenge the defeat he suffered at Mr Kohl's hands in the "unification election" of 1990, when he would argue the result was skewed by the emotions of the time and his own energies were sapped by severe knife-wounds inflicted by a campaign-hall assailant.But he needs time to build up his statesman's stature.
Should they succeed in staging an attack on mainland America, the cycle might start again: experience shows that to avenge the victims of murder at home, America will fight.It seems far-fetched to think that America would go to war over the islands known to Japan as the Senkakus and to China as the Diaoyus.
That would avenge the right's defeat of 1997 and so let its president avoid a repetition of the five-year "cohabitation" he has just endured with the left.The challenge for Mr Chirac is to maintain that momentum.
The militants insist they will avenge the deaths of their members in Israeli raids Islamic Jihad vowed revenge for Mr Seder's killing and say that the ceasefire may not last until its expiry date in late September, let alone be renewed thereafter, unless many of their comrades are released from Israeli custody.
