to begrudge
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7.6
- verb
- /bɪˈɡrʌdʒ/
:
envidiar
- I don't begrudge my friend the promotion; she worked very hard for it.
But the, the, the I really begrudge the stamp duty.
- But the, the, the I really begrudge the stamp duty.
- And also I can't, I can't begrudge people that.
- And you know, I don't begrudge anybody who wants to free expression and and to protest.
- Winston Churchill would ask, a decade later, who shall mock or begrudge these overpowering entrancements?
- But even if you assume that they are because, you know, we often fall into those those assumptions, it's not something that we should begrudge another.
Examples
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You wouldn't begrudge an aging man his moment's rest, would you?
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Surely in a world as wonderful as this, no one would begrudge a donation toward such a worthwhile cause.
Fiction book (1999) -
No one would begrudge you if you wanted to take a few minutes.
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Why begrudge me a little fun?
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So things are so bad in this country that people begrudge emergency treatment to the sick?
Blog text (14) -
Look, fans, players want to get paid; we should not begrudge them that at all.
Blog text (16) -
None of the older workers that I know begrudge him this favorable public image.
Academic text (2017) -
You wouldn't begrudge me a little protection?
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I don't have kids in school anymore, but I don't begrudge money for public education.
Blog text (14) -
Miss Julia is going to be sixteen in September, and she begrudges her big sister everything that comes her way.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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4.1
To feel angry and upset about something unfair
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5.0
To give something unwillingly because you feel angry or hurt
To be unwilling to give something to someone
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Morphology
Etymology
Begrudge comes from adding the small word be- to grudge, where grudge means 'a feeling of anger or unwillingness'. So, to begrudge someone something is to feel unhappy they have it or to give it to them 'unwillingly'.