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# revengeful

«revengeful» in Mova's school dictionary: **wanting to pay back someone who has hurt or wronged you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (more revengeful, most revengeful)

### meaning for a pupil

Revengeful means wanting to pay back someone who has hurt or wronged you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revengeful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a revengeful creature, such as an ogre, wants to hurt the person who harmed it

### examples

- "I am not revengeful," said the old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revengeful/#x1)
- Ogres are very revengeful creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revengeful/#x2)
- Do not be revengeful after a quarrel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revengeful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.727/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revengeful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revengeful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.