avenge

• For there was the defeat of Mons Graupius for the Picts to avenge, and, a generation before that, there was the dying curse of a flamehaired queen called Boudicca … —  The Two Malcontents
• Zombie Bruce Lee, returned from the dead to avenge his name? .... —  Think Progress
• "Personally I glory in a power that is so quick to avenge, and only regret that it did not come in time to prevent the terrible massacres of the hound Arabi. —  Under the Rebel's Reign
• They had personal injuries to avenge, and though Achilles was responsible for them, they proposed to wreak vengeance on the boy whom a luckless fate had thrown into their hands My shoulders are sore yet," said Hayden, "over the fall that big brute gave me And my head hasn't got over the crack I got when he laid me flat with his club," responded Stubbs Well, we've got a friend of his, that's one comfort. —  The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
• Many of them resolved to rally round her--avenge her wrongs, and punish the perpetrators. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852

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