{"id":71854,"date":"2019-08-29T06:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71854"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:33:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:33:39","slug":"avenge-and-revenge-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/avenge-and-revenge-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Avenge And Revenge Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Revenge and avenge<\/strong> are often confused. Avenge means \u2018get or take vengeance for\u2019. To avenge my father is to punish someone who has hurt my father.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I must avenge my father.<\/li>\n<li>We must avenge the insult.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: I must revenge my mother.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: I must avenge my mother. (= I must punish someone who has hurt my mother.)<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: I must revenge my enemy.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: I must take revenge on my enemy. (= I must punish my enemy.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that you <strong>avenge<\/strong> with the idea of seeing justice done. Revenge is less concerned with justice. To revenge is to do something (wrong) just because it gives you satisfaction.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane\u2019s father avenged her death by getting her killer arrested and convicted. (Jane\u2019s father wants to see justice done.)<\/li>\n<li>Jane\u2019s boyfriend took revenge on her killer by killing his wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, Jane\u2019s boyfriend was upset with the man who killed her. But justice can\u2019t be his primary concern when he decided to kill that man\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenge and avenge are often confused. Avenge means \u2018get or take vengeance for\u2019. To avenge my father is to punish someone who has hurt my father. I must avenge my father. We must avenge&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[949,951,952,950],"class_list":["post-71854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-avenge","tag-avenge-and-revenge","tag-difference-between-avenge-and-revenge","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71855,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71854\/revisions\/71855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}