avenger
仇人,仇敌,仇家,侠客行
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- : 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.
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He could imagine himself an Islamist avenger like that masked monster in black who appears in the ISIS snuff videos.
But the avenger is held to a standard of precision in the retaliation he seeks.
Remember this guy—called himself the Southern Avenger, was photographed wearing a stars and bars superhero kind of mask?
Eating Fire: My Life As a Lesbian Avenger is published by University of Minnesota Press, $19.95.
Put before proper media scrutiny, the brash “Southern Avenger” is a shrinking violet.
They deceive themselves; we trust in God, who is the avenger of injustice; He will give us courage, and wisdom.
I am simply his friend, Alvarez Lazaro—his friend and his avenger!
There is no telling what the next move of this maniacal avenger will be.
A temple to Mars the avenger, if I had but a front of Illyrian horse!
And who is the swift "avenger of blood" who is following close as a sleuth-hound on thy track?