(v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
(v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
(v. i.) To take vengeance.
(n.) Vengeance; revenge.
Example Sentences:
(1) For my money, Batman should be teamed up with the Burka Avenger .
(2) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(3) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(4) Last October, apparently to avenge charges of drift, the Culture Department launched its library services modernisation review in an avalanche of wonk-speak that suggested little understanding of what brilliant places libraries can be.
(5) As Gabrielle is at pains to point out, there was no unhappy childhood to avenge; no traumas to shove into the creative crucible.
(6) Some of the Shia militias taking part in the campaign have also said they want to avenge the infamous Camp Speicher massacre, one of the largest incidents of mass execution by Isis, when up to 1,700 Iraqi Shia army cadets were massacred last year.
(7) Click here to watch It has been reported elsewhere that Star Wars could be packaged in line with the studio's Marvel universe, which successfully delivered a series of comic book films focusing on individual superheroes before bringing them all together for the $1.5bn box office hit The Avengers earlier this year.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a year of expensive sequels ahead (Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are both budgeted at more than $200m), it’s a vital time for a dramatic uplift in both US and international box office, which has seen a reduced rate of growth in the past three years.
(9) LG Assembly Hall, Edinburgh ( nationaltheatrescotland.com ), 17 September Electra Kristin Scott Thomas stars as Sophocles’s murderous heroine who joins with her brother, Orestes, to avenge their father’s death.
(10) Mosque attack – A man has been arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in Paris, reportedly to avenge attacks linked to Isis that have killed dozens in Paris in recent years.
(11) Maybe instead of being assembled in different formations – such as the Marvel Avengers, or Superman and Batman – American superheroes could benefit from a sort of cultural exchange programme.
(12) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(13) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(14) Jackson's comments led the adult star Catalina Cruz to call for a boycott of his movies , telling the Avengers actor that "these sites are stealing whole members' areas and have to potential to kill an industry."
(15) The Avengers, $392.5m Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Guardian Film Show discusses Jurassic World.
(16) Black Widow: girls and boys need more kick-ass female Avengers action figures Read more Rival studios made the wise decision to avoid putting new movies up against Disney-Marvel’s superhero epic, resulting in a complete absence of competing debutants in North America.
(17) The stated desire to avenge the massacre has also given rise to fears by locals from Tikrit that the militias may carry out retributive killings or summary executions.
(18) Watson was hoping to avenge his defeat but instead the world watched as Eubank caught Watson with a devastating uppercut in the 11th round.
(19) The attacks were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers”, a spokesman said.
(20) It appears the so-called "Avengers bounce" which helped Shane Black's film to a $1.2m haul, is still in place.
Avenue
Definition:
(n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
(n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
(n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) This program brings the most up-to-date therapy for the treatment of many cancers to the USAF and DOD and provides the avenues for further advances in cancer therapy in the decades to come.
(3) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(4) By late afternoon, the intersection of North Avenue and Fulton Avenue had been turned into what one man – bottles of cognac in each hand – called an “open bar”.
(5) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
(6) Number 232, Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo Park, California, looks like another ordinary house in another ordinary street.
(7) Public Law 92-603 is a mandata from the public for physicians to exercise every avenue of diagnosis and salvage for the nephritic patient.
(8) In recent days, protests in Istanbul against Russian involvement in Syria and Aleppo, including a demonstration in front of the Russian consulate on the city’s famed İstiklal Avenue, have occurred on a regular basis.
(9) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
(10) Inhibition of this futile cycling may represent one avenue by which energetic costs of maintenance and production can be lowered in ruminants.
(11) Authorities said the women, who disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, remembered leaving the confines of 2207 Seymour Avenue in west Cleveland only twice during their years in captivity.
(12) The hypothesis of visceral learning has opened a new avenue in the search for a pathway between psychosocial stimuli and physiological changes.
(13) Identification of the physiologic importance of these mediators in the heaves syndrome or other potential equine allergic syndromes may contribute both to the basic understanding of the pathogenesis of allergy, as well as suggest possible avenues for control.
(14) The Telling Project and Story Corps are creative avenues for stories like those to find an audience.
(15) He continues: “And a ‘no excuses’ culture where excellence is the norm.” Police were called by a member of the public shortly after 11am after reports of a disturbance outside the school in George V Avenue, where a number of parents and pupils had gathered.
(16) We will continue to pursue all avenues to get our journalists back, and are grateful for all the support we have received.
(17) This radical surgery, which removes the lower half of the body, is generally not performed until other avenues of treatment have been tried.
(18) Although successful biological research appears to be based on logical inference, on systematic accumulation of information, and on evaluation and hypothesis testing, many nonlogical, unpredictable factors may play an important role or even open new avenues of research.
(19) The NUJ also met on Tuesday to discuss "pursuing legal avenues" with the BBC over controversial changes to the corporation's pension scheme.
(20) The overall reduction in therapeutic ratio suggests that this avenue of clinical research should no longer be pursued and that such regimens should be adopted with caution for purposes of combining radiosensitizers or hyperthermia.