noun, verb
noun ~ (against sb) a feeling of anger or dislike towards sb because of sth bad they have done to you in the past:
I bear him no grudge. * He has a grudge against the world. * She has harboured a grudge against me for years. * I don't hold any grudges now. * He's a man with a grudge. * England beat New Zealand in a grudge match (= a match where there is strong dislike between the teams).
Part of speech: verb
1 to do or give sth unwillingly
SYNBEGRUDGE:
[V-ing] I grudge having to pay so much tax. * [VN] He grudges the time he spends travelling to work.
2 [VNN] to think that sb does not deserve to have sth
SYNBEGRUDGE:
You surely don't grudge her her success?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for grudge is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grudge a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grudge is tagged as verb.
Does grudge appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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