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RELATED WORDS

grievance, enmity, bitterness, resentment, malice, animus, antipathy, animosity, rancor, hatred, injustice, malignancy, spite, pique, malevolence, spleen, venom, spitefulness, maliciousness, aversion

Nearby words

  1. grubelsucht,
  2. gruber,
  3. grubstake,
  4. grubstreet,
  5. grubworm,
  6. grudging,
  7. grudgingly,
  8. grudziadz,
  9. grue,
  10. gruel

Origin of grudge

1400–50; late Middle English grudgen, gruggen, variant of gruchen < Old French gro(u)c(h)ier < Germanic; compare Middle High German grogezen to complain, cry out
SYNONYMS FOR grudge
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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Related formsgrudge·less, adjectivegrudg·er, nounun·grudged, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for grudge

grudge

/ (ɡrʌdʒ) /

noun

a persistent feeling of resentment, esp one due to some cause, such as an insult or injury
(modifier) planned or carried out in order to settle a grudgea grudge fight

verb

(tr) to give or allow unwillingly
to feel resentful or envious about (someone else's success, possessions, etc)
Derived Formsgrudgeless, adjectivegrudger, noungrudging, adjectivegrudgingly, adverb

Word Origin for grudge

C15: from Old French grouchier to grumble, probably of Germanic origin; compare Old High German grunnizōn to grunt
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for grudge

grudge

v.

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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with grudge

grudge

see bear a grudge; nurse a grudge.

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