The term 'avenged' can be defined as 'to take revenge for a wrong suffered'. The crossword solutions for this term are 'PAID' (4 letters) and 'ORESTES' (7 letters). In Greek mythology, Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He avenged his father's death by killing his mother and her lover, Aegisthus. This story is known as the Oresteia, and it is one of the earliest examples of the concept of justice in literature.