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unrevenged

unrevenged

1 8.4
Not punished or paid back after a wrong
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.rɪˈvɛndʒd/
translation icon : sin venganza
  • The community felt that the murder of their leader should not remain unrevenged.

Examples

  • Would you leave Agent Wormwood unrevenged?

    The Eiger Sanction (1975)

  • For two months we have mourned the good King Edwin, who by the cruel Viking Ragnar was foully murdered, and still lies unrevenged.

    The Vikings (1958)

  • So many corpses roll away, unrevenged.

    Se7en (1995)

  • - won't go unrevenged.

    Moon Over Parador (1988)

  • The hero vowed that the villain would not go unrevenged for his heinous crimes.

  • In tales of old, many wrongs were avenged, but some remained unrevenged forever.

Synonyms

unpunished
vsunrevenged
11 4.2

Not made to face any consequences after doing something wrong

emphasizes absence of personal retaliation rather than legal penalty
unavenged
vsunrevenged
1 9.9

A wrong people have not punished or made right

is the term for lack of personal retaliation rather than formal punishment
unredressed
vsunrevenged
  • Formal
9.3

Not made right after a wrong or unfair action

focuses on missing personal retaliation rather than lack of remedy

Antonyms

avenged
7.2

A wrong, for example a murder, that people have taken revenge for

How Avenged

avenged
7.2
unrevenged
1 8.4

Surface Forms

unrevenged positive

Morphology

unrevenged = revenged (transparent) = un + revenge + ed

A productive negation by 'un-' applied to the past-participial/adjectival form 'revenged' yields the straightforward meaning 'not avenged'.

Etymology

Unrevenged is made of un- meaning 'not' and revenged, from revenge, which means 'to get back at someone who did wrong'. So unrevenged describes a wrong or injury that has not been punished or set right.