avenging

avenging a loved one's death

I vow to avenge my wife's death.

Macduff, of course, wishes to avenge his family's death.

Their big worry was how to keep Georgian Dream loyalists, perhaps backed by Russia, from avenging defeat with violence.

So hamlet has to avenge his father by killing his stepfather slash uncle.

A reluctant Galadriel faces the prospect of relinquishing her quest to avenge her brother's death.

In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.

And so it's not such a stretch to wonder if Paul avenged his wife's death by killing Martha for blackmailing them.

His struggles were desperate, but the avenging hands held him as in a vice.

One day, my lady, I will avenge our king.

I wished to see him again so that I could avenge the deaths of William and Justine.