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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vengeful/ˈvenʤfl/

▶adjective seeking to harm someone in return for a perceived injury.

– derivatives
vengefully adverb,
vengefulness noun.

– origin C16: from obs. venge ‘avenge’ (see vengeance), on the pattern of revengeful.

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