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单词 grudge
释义 grudge
I. \ˈgrəj\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English gruggen, grudgen, alteration of grucchen, grutchen, from Old French grucier, groucier, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German grogezen to howl, lament
intransitive verb
: complain, grumble
 < let us have parties and our friends in, and never grudged — Rose Macaulay >
transitive verb
: to be unwilling to give or allow or to give or allow with reluctance or with resentment : begrudge
 < grudges you every morsel of food you eat — William Thornton >
 < surely you do not grudge him his superiority — G.B.Shaw >
 < you come to grudge even the sun for shining — Virginia Woolf >
II. noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English grugge, from gruggen, v.
: a feeling of deep-seated resentment or ill will
 < personal enemies against whom one has a grudge — R.F.Barton >
 < held no grudge against any … who had misused him — Willa Cather >
 < a grudge fence >
 < as we had never liked each other our collision would have elements of a grudge match — A.W.Turnbull >
 < fiction's grudge fights and revenges — Bernard De Voto >
Synonyms: see malice
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