AVENGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avenged mean? 

• AVENGED (adjective)
  The adjective AVENGED has 1 sense:

1. for which vengeance has been taken

  Familiarity information: AVENGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVENGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For which vengeance has been taken

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

an avenged injury

Antonym:

unavenged (for which vengeance has not been taken)

Participle:

avenge (take revenge for a perceived wrong)

 Context examples 

I am his brother, and, come what will I will die happy now, for his memory has been avenged.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could read in them a set purpose to devote his life to this quest until the client whom he had failed to save should at last be avenged.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you have done.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hearts confined by cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Holmes, however, is, I fancy, of a different way of thinking, and holds to this day that, if one could find the Grecian girl, one might learn how the wrongs of herself and her brother came to be avenged.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)