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venge·ful
 vengeful
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- pronunciation:
- venj
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adjective |
| definition: |
feeling or showing a strong desire to punish someone for a past wrong; feeling or showing revenge.
Remembering how that bully had treated him in elementary school, the vengeful teenager, now full of confidence, found a way to embarrass the bully in front of all his friends.The farmer could not forgive his neighbor for what the neighbor had done to him, so the farmer committed a vengeful deed. |
| related words: |
malicious |
| derivations: |
vengefully (adv.), vengefulness (n.) |
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