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avenger
[ uh-ven-jer ]
noun
- a person who takes revenge for an offense:
They feel that by engaging in terrorism they become the avengers of a great wrong done to their people.
- a person who takes revenge on behalf of someone else:
In the film, Zorro sees himself as the avenger of the innocent.
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of avenger1
Example Sentences
Reacher is both an overt right-wing power fantasy and the kind of avenger lefties can get behind.
He canât âfixâ whatâs oppressing them, but he may be able to rig it for a favored few, becoming the heartlandâs and the urban working-classâ imagined avenger when heâs really their pusher.
Now, the avengers agreed, they were the âlast bastion of defenseâ for the masses.
That wouldnât stop the health care machine from crushing more people because that cruelty and violence is systemic, not individual â and that problem canât be fixed by a lone avenger with a gun.
Duncanâs great-grandmother, Lucy Moore, was just 6 when U.S. soldiers and self-appointed avengers besieged her and other villagers.
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