If you avenge your father's death by killing his murderer (thereby taking revenge for the crime), there is a good chance you'll end up in jail, if you're caught.
To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Verb
take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
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.
Avenge
He will avenge the blood of his servants.
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen.2.
Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies.
I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another.
Avenge
Avenge
To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
To take vengeance.
Vengeance; revenge.
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