"venge" meaning in English

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      "form": "venges",
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          "text": "To safeguard thine own life / The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.",
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        "To avenge; to punish; to revenge."
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To avenge; to punish; to revenge."
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  "word": "venge"
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