Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Resentment held onto”6 letters
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