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grudge

/gruhj/US // grʌdʒ //UK // (ɡrʌdʒ) //

怨恨,怨气,恩怨,怨念

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : done, arranged, etc., in order to settle a grudge: The middleweight fight was said to be a grudge match.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    grudged, grudg·ing.

    • : to give or permit with reluctance; submit to unwillingly: The other team grudged us every point we scored.
    • : to resent the good fortune of; begrudge: A lot of people grudge those billionaires all that money.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    grudged, grudg·ing.

    • : Obsolete. to feel dissatisfaction or ill will.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhard feelings
Forms: grudging

Examples

  • It would be good for the girls to see, too, that you can respect their decision fully and still not carry their grudges into the adult friendships.

  • An eagerness to promote short-term grievances into long-term grudges is detrimental to family harmony.

  • Ah, the holiday spirit — and its many ways to bear a grudge.

  • His stories did what many big-city columnists’ stories have done over the decades, grinding axes and nursing grudges.

  • I’m not going to sit here and carry a grudge just because people expect me to carry it.

  • We Micks only hold a grudge about such things for 300 years or so.

  • One nabob even seems to have commandeered the challenge to reignite an old grudge.

  • Of course, this theory makes sense as the answer to a question like, “Why is Solange holding a grudge against Jay Z?”

  • But I meant it less as you holding a grudge and more as… Of course I had to register the protest.

  • Consider what The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water, Pulse, and a slew of other horror remakes have to add.

  • This would be an awful blow to us out here, would be a sign that Providence had some grudge against the Dardanelles.

  • It was miserable economy indeed to grudge a reward of a few thousands to one who had made the State richer by millions.

  • I grudge no trouble in the duty that Providence has forced upon me of superintending the lives of any of my girls.

  • In any case, after the first hours of bitterness, Tchaikovsky bore no grudge against the faithless lady.

  • Now he had a new grudge against Louis de Valmont; to the sins of the master had been added those of the men.