Crossword clues for grudge
grudge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grudge \Grudge\, v. i.
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To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
Grudge not one against another.
--James v. 9.He eats his meat without grudging.
--Shak. To feel compunction or grief. [Obs.]
--Bp. Fisher.
Grudge \Grudge\, n.
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Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel.
Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and enmity against his brother Jacob.
--South.The feeling may not be envy; it may not be imbittered by a grudge.
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Slight symptom of disease. [Obs.]
Our shaken monarchy, that now lies . . . struggling against the grudges of more dreaded calamities.
--Milton.Syn: Pique; aversion; dislike; ill will; hatred; spite. See Pique.
Grudge \Grudge\ (gr[u^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grudger; p. pr. & vb. n. Grudging.] [OE. grutchen, gruchen, grochen, to murmur, grumble, OF. grochier, grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a murmur, or E. grunt.]
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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.
Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train.
--Shak.I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments.
--Swift.They have grudged us contribution.
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To hold or harbor with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. [Obs.]
Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty !
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to murmur, complain," variant of grutch. Meaning "to begrudge" is c.1500. Related: Grudged; grudges; grudging; grudgingly. The noun is mid-15c., from the verb.
Wiktionary
n. (context countable English) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone, especially due to a past bad deed or mistreatment. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. (15th-18th c.) 2 To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). (from 16th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. 4 (context obsolete English) To feel compunction or grief.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Grudge may refer to:
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The Grudge, a horror film
- The Grudge (franchise), a horror franchise
- The Grudge (album), an album by Mortiis
- "The Grudge" (song), a song by Tool
- Grudge, a character in Making Fiends
- Project Grudge, a project by the U.S. Air Force to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs)
Usage examples of "grudge".
What had killed Aby and Moon had no relation to anything, no grudge, no personal reason.
It was necessary, Auster told him in a few grudging words, to compensate for the presence of an undeveloped telepath inside the aircraft.
I was a comparatively sane bibliomaniac, but to Allen the time came when he grudged every penny that he did not spend on rare books, and when he actually gave up his share of the water we used to take together, that his contribution to the rent might go for rare editions and bindings.
But in his heart came the beginning of a grudge against the Bush, Billabong in general, and Norah in particular.
Who could have thought that this Hoo was in dead earnest, and before leaving the bridal room, motivated by Heaven knows what old grudge, dropped poison in the teapot that was standing by the side of the bridal bed?
I suddenly realized that Calandra was beginning to pay a somewhat grudging attention to our surroundings.
After an accident to his flagship caused by a Chian ship, King Mithridates VI of Pontus ever after harbored a huge grudge against Chios and Chians.
Yet, in spite of my good disposition to forgiveness, the kick administered by Cordiani was still heavy upon my memory, and I could not help keeping a grudge against him.
By the end of 1949 Project Grudge claimed that all reports to date had been delusions, illusions, mirages, hysteria, hoaxes, and crackpot tales.
Perhaps the man has some grudge against the baker, or this under-priest, or someone who works on the new walls at Deese House.
Cradossk was a wilier old reptile, though-Boba Fett even had a grudging respect for the head of the Bounty Hunters Guild, from some long-ago encounters with him-and would know just what the score was with his feckless underlings.
This is because for any one rare cheat there is only a small chance of his encountering the same grudger twice: therefore the proportion of individuals in the population who bear a grudge against any given cheat will be small.
I could not guess that Branicki had only acted at her instigation, and still less that she had a grudge against me.
To these men he was no Waiting King with a heavy mantel of impossible expectations, just another inlander who had managed to earn their grudging respect.
He lingered for a while before he took his final leave, leaning against the door-post, and laughingly telling how he and some of his brother squires had made a figure of straw dressed in men's clothes, and had played a trick with it one night upon a watchman against whom they bore a grudge.