What's the difference between avenging and vengeful?
Avenging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avenge
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.
Vengeful
Definition:
(a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Example Sentences:
(1) On hearing the Rolf Harris verdicts, I felt vengeful, like many, I expect – condemning this man who led the public a merry dance and enjoyed enormous success while perpetrating abuse.
(2) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Mourinho was definitely the Grinch – ill-tempered, vengeful, unable to moderate what came out of his mouth, but also sometimes charming and hilariously funny.
(3) Thankfully, there is no sign so far of another Oswald Mosley, and the British National party performed poorly in the election, but Gray detects some of the hallmarks of populism – "a diffuse sense of grievance directed at the political class" and "an indeterminate, unlimited hope" – in the 2008 election of the unqualified Boris Johnson as mayor of London, in the carelessly vengeful mood of many voters after the MPs' expenses scandal, and in the three-week wonder of Cleggmania.
(4) Whatever else Valérie Trierweiler has been portrayed as – vengeful harpy, ambitious meddler, undignified ex – she is also a woman who has had her heart broken.
(5) Individuals "associated with the opposition" had used an FM radio station to broadcast hate speech, even urging "men from one community to commit vengeful sexual violence against women from another community", it said.
(6) Either he says "mea culpa" and resigns, almost certainly precipitating a general election; or he condemns the ledgers as fabrications, the work of a vengeful Bárcenas angry about taking the fall for a practice that allegedly all were party to.
(7) After much online rancour, Pelevina agreed she would not stand in the elections, but wrote on Facebook that Yashin was a “simple liar, petty and vengeful, and simply an indecent person”.
(8) Hopefully it takes more than a throwing knife hurled by a vengeful sexagenarian to take him down.
(9) Labour strategists also hope that by postponing the bulk of the pain until April 2010 or the year after, the voters will not be too vengeful in the spring.
(10) Perhaps the culprit was skiving off the wedding of a despised but vengeful cousin when he posted.
(11) What’s much more questionable is the way the same vengeful attitude is extended to anyone who ever portrayed the last two years of Labour politics in terms of doubt, concern and malaise, and who are being similarly instructed to say sorry for their alleged heresy or be escorted from the building.
(12) Acts of intimacy and frail hope in a vortex out there, of mad politics and distant wars come vengefully home to claim those who had simply gone about their lives.
(13) Fast forward 10 years and a vengeful ghost of the victim returns to haunt the Iceland manager, who has, rather unusually, become the county's prime minister.
(14) The Egyptian blogger, Zeinobia, argued that the attack “will generate more anger and we will have more vengeful actions from the regime, which already did not waste any time in the past [in terms of increasing] oppression and fighting freedoms in the name of counter-terrorism”.
(15) "Instead of chasing tax evaders they are chasing me," said Vaxevanis, who had described his original trial as "targeted and vengeful".
(16) The vengeful allies after the First World War tried initially to demand Germany pay reparations on that scale, atoning for millions of dead in the trenches, before more than halving their demands.
(17) One woman looked her in the eye and described how she lost her sons, aged 12 and nine, when they were unlawfully killed by her vengeful ex-husband in a house fire in which he also died.
(18) For the last few months, in preparation for a radio documentary, I've been talking to Comfort's friends and relations and reading through the immense body of work that now lies in the shadow of The Joy of Sex – the poetry that ensured he was spoken of in the same breath as Auden and Spender; the drama about the mine-workers forced to dig a toxic element that irradiates their bones and turns them into vengeful monsters; the pamphlets arguing that peace in the atomic age can only be secured through public disobedience.
(19) Trierweiler was seen as a vengeful second wife, staking out her territory.
(20) That it is impossible to imagine her successors going in for comparable sharing only underlines, on the other hand, how rapidly the royal family restored its factory settings – absorbing, along the way, the woman who prompted Diana into vengeful activity.