Grudge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To be reluctant to give or admit: even grudged the tuition money.
  • v. To resent for having; begrudge: grudged him his good ways with the children.
  • n. A deep-seated feeling of resentment or rancor: bears a grudge about the accident.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.
  • v. To hold or harbor with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
  • verb-intransitive. To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel compunction or grief.
  • n. Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel.
  • n. Slight symptom of disease.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To be unwilling or reluctant.
  • To cherish ill-will; bear a grudge.
  • To be sorry; grieve.
  • To murmur; grumble.
  • To envy; wish to deprive of something.
  • To give or permit with reluctance; grant or submit to unwillingly; begrudge.
  • To entertain by way of grudge.
  • n. Ill-will excited by some special cause, as a personal injury or insult, successful rivalry, etc.; secret enmity; spite.
  • n. Unwillingness; reluctance.
  • n. Synonyms Animosity, Ill-will, Enmity, etc. See animosity.
  • To crumble; crunch.
  • To squeeze; press down.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
  • v. accept or admit unwillingly
  • v. bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
  • Verb Form
    grudged    grudges    grudging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    resentment    bitterness    gall    rancor    rancour    resent   
    Cross Reference
    envy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    begrudge    covet    murmur    complain    repine    ill will    pique    spite    dislike    aversion   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adjudge    begrudge    budge    drudge    fudge    judge    misjudge    nudge    prejudge    rudge   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    reluctant    cordial    animosity    rueful    tacit    sarcastic    respectful    feud    mutual    resentful