Avenge vs.

Revenge
Avenge is a verb. To avenge is to punish a wrongdoing with the intent of seeing justice done.
Revenge can be used as a noun or a verb. It is more personal, less concerned with justice and
more about retaliation by inflicting harm.
According to Dictionary.com,
Avenge and revenge both imply to inflict pain or harm in return for pain or harm inflicted on
oneself or those persons or causes to which one feels loyalty. The two words were formerly
interchangeable, but have been differentiated until they now convey widely diverse ideas.
Avenge is now restricted to inflicting punishment as an act of retributive justice or as a
vindication of propriety: to avenge a murder by bringing the criminal to trial. Revenge implies
inflicting pain or harm to retaliate for real or fancied wrongs; a reflexive pronoun is often used
with this verb: Iago wished to revenge himself upon Othello.
Avenge
Definition

Revenge
(VERB) to inflict punishment as an act
of retributive justice

(NOUN) inflicted pain or retaliation for real or

perceived wrong doings.

Synonyms vindicate

reprisal, retribution, vengeance

Antonyms forgive

forgiveness

Example

I avenged my father's murder by seeing I am seeking revenge for my father's murder so the
that the killer went to jail.
killer suffers the same way my father did.