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Liberty Star
01-01-2010, 03:13 PM
Anyone knows what "avenge" means? I used to confuse it with the word "revenge" but looks like I had it wrong.


Intel officer: CIA officers' deaths will be avenged

December 31, 2009 3:42 p.m. EST

Source: Two CIA officers killed were contractors for firm formerly known as Blackwater

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An American intelligence official vowed Thursday that the United States would avenge a suspected terrorist attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of seven CIA officers.

Two of those killed were contractors with private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, a former intelligence official told CNN. The CIA considers contractors to be officers.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/afghanistan.us.casualties/

orafi
01-01-2010, 03:15 PM
revenge = noun

avenge = verb

same meaning but different uses to express it

t0rnado
01-01-2010, 03:19 PM
Looks like that suicide bomber did the avenging.

Liberty Star
01-01-2010, 03:26 PM
revenge = noun

avenge = verb

same meaning but different uses to express it

I was under the impression Obama had banned the noun early on, but I could be mistaken.

NYgs23
01-01-2010, 04:00 PM
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

TheBlackPeterSchiff
01-01-2010, 04:02 PM
will this ever end?

Liberty Star
01-01-2010, 04:05 PM
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

From some reason that reminded me of this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D96KWE0CL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

JK/SEA
01-01-2010, 04:10 PM
will this ever end?

Yes, when everybody is dead.

(see world war one)

lynnf
01-01-2010, 04:42 PM
I wonder how many women and children will be getting zapped in that revenge?


lynn