unavenged

Examples

• All

• When a wrong is unavenged, the heavens look down on us in shame.

  47 Ronin (2013)

• Don't let me die... unavenged.

  El Cid (1961)

• Brother, your death will not go unavenged.

  Black Dynamite (2009)

• No man shall die unavenged.

  Edge of Darkness (1943)

• Will you let those men's death go unavenged?

  2010: Moby Dick (2010)

• An unavenged murder?

  Academic text (2000)

• When a wrong is unavenged, the victim's pain lingers without closure.

• It felt unjust that the crime remained unavenged, leaving the family in sorrow.

• Many believe that a murderer should never go unavenged for their heinous acts.

Synonyms

U

unpunished

vsunavenged

11 4.2

Not made to face any consequences after doing something wrong

is about lack of revenge or personal retribution rather than legal punishment

U

unrevenged

vsunavenged

1 8.4

Not punished or paid back after a wrong

is identical in sense but adds the idea of compensation or formal retribution

U

unpenalized

vsunavenged

1 4.9

Not punished for doing something wrong

focuses on unpaid vengeance or retribution not formal penalties

U

unredressed

vsunavenged

• Formal

9.3

Not made right after a wrong or unfair action

emphasises punishment or compensation instead of fixing the harm

Antonyms

A

avenged

7.2

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

P

punished

1.4

Has a penalty for doing something wrong

How Avenged

avenged

7.2

punished

1.4

unavenged

1 9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology