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begrudge

/bɪˈɡɹʌd͡ʒ/

begrudge verb: to grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.

Verb

begrudge (third-person singular simple present begrudges, present participle begrudging, simple past and past participle begrudged)

  1. To grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.
  2. To be reluctant.
  3. (usually) To give reluctantly.
    • Okay, then, next time you go and leave me stay here. See if I begrudge you a little fun.1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 16, number 1, page 50
    • “Trial’ll probably be Monday. You can keep him one night, can’t you? I don’t think anybody in Maycomb’ll begrudge me a client, with times this hard.”1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

begrudge meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

begrudge in Bengali

হিংসা করা, ঈর্ষা করা, অনিচ্ছাসত্ত্বেও দেওয়া

begrudge in Malayalam

താൽപ്പര്യമില്ലാതെ ചെയ്യുക, അസൂയപ്പെടുക

begrudge in Kannada

ಕಂಗಾಗು, ಕಂಗು ಮಾಡು, ಅಸಹನೆ ತೋರಿಸು, ಸಹಿಸದಿರು, ಉದ್ರೇಕಗೊಳ್ಳು

Forms of begrudge

third-person singular presentbegrudges
present participlebegrudging
past participlebegrudged
pastbegrudged

Past tense of begrudge: begrudged

Origin of begrudge

From Middle English bigrucchen (“to grumble at”), equivalent to be- (“at, about, over”) + grudge. Compare also English begrouch.

Words formed from begrudge

Questions about begrudge

What does begrudge mean?
Begrudge means to grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.
What is begrudge in Bengali?
Begrudge in Bengali is হিংসা করা, ঈর্ষা করা, অনিচ্ছাসত্ত্বেও দেওয়া. See Begrudge meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is begrudge?
Begrudge is a verb.
How do you pronounce begrudge?
Begrudge is pronounced /bɪˈɡɹʌd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of begrudge?
The past tense of begrudge is begrudged.

Words near begrudge in the dictionary

  1. begroans
  2. begrouch
  3. begrouched
  4. begrouches
  5. begrouching
  6. begrudge
  7. begrudged
  8. begrudgement
  9. begrudgements
  10. begrudger
  11. begrudgers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: begrudge (page history and authors); begrudge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); begrudge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); begrudge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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