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grudge

  [gruhj] noun, adjective, verb, grudged, grudg⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.
–adjective
2. done, arranged, etc., in order to settle a grudge: The middleweight fight was said to be a grudge match.
–verb (used with object)
3. to give or permit with reluctance; submit to unwillingly: The other team grudged us every point we scored.
4. to resent the good fortune of (another); begrudge.
–verb (used without object)
5. Obsolete. to feel dissatisfaction or ill will.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME grudgen, gruggen, var. of gruchen < OF gro(u)c(h)ier < Gmc.; cf. MHG grogezen to complain, cry out

Related forms:
grudgeless, adjective
grudger, noun

Synonyms:
1. bitterness, rancor, malevolence, enmity, hatred. Grudge, malice, spite refer to ill will held against another or others. A grudge is a feeling of resentment harbored because of some real or fancied wrong: to hold a grudge because of jealousy; She has a grudge against him. Malice is the state of mind that delights in doing harm, or seeing harm done, to others, whether expressing itself in an attempt seriously to injure or merely in sardonic humor: malice in watching someone's embarrassment; to tell lies about someone out of malice. Spite is petty, and often sudden, resentment that manifests itself usually in trifling retaliations: to reveal a secret out of spite. 4. envy.
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grudge   (grŭj)   
tr.v.   grudged, grudg·ing, grudg·es

  1. To be reluctant to give or admit: even grudged the tuition money.

  2. 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.

[Middle English gruggen, grucchen, to grumble, complain, from Old French grouchier.]
grudg'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

grudge  (v.)
c.1450, grucchen, from O.Fr. groucher "to murmur, to grumble," of unknown origin, probably ultimately imitative. The noun is 1477, from the verb.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

grudge

see bear a grudge; nurse a grudge.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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