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Word entry · 6 letters

grudge

Best crossword clue

"Resentment held onto"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted deggruStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. accept or admit unwillingly

Word origin

A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative.

Used in a sentence

  • to have, hold, owe or bear a grudge against someone
  • Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
  • I have never mentioned it to a human creature; I have kept my grudge to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my grudge has grown old with me.

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