begrudge
to resent
TRANSLATION
begrudge = jmd. etwas beneiden oder missgönnen --- GOOGLE INDEX begrudge: approximately 600,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Don't BEGRUDGE China's Exports Coup
(Wall Street Journal - news headline)
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He even BEGRUDGES the water with which he washes.
- Latin proverb
(Wall Street Journal - news headline)
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He even BEGRUDGES the water with which he washes.
- Latin proverb
Did you
know?
begrudge
verb
- to envy the possession or enjoyment of
- to give, admit or allow unwillingly
(Collins English Dictionary)
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Begrudge stems from the Middle English grudge, which is from "grucchen" by way of the Old French "groucher," meaning to murmur or grumble.
Scientists are known to sometimes begrudge the work of colleagues. There was talk of giving the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Thomas Edison and the famously eccentric electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. However, Tesla and Edison both shared an intense dislike for each other.
The honour went instead to a Swedish inventor of lesser merit - Nils Gustaf Dalen - for his invention of automatic regulators. The result was that Edison, one of the great inventors of all time, never won a Nobel Prize.
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SYNONYMS
be jealous, be reluctant, be stingy, covet, eat one's heart out, envy, grudge, resent
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I don't begrudge him his promotion. He earned it."
verb
- to envy the possession or enjoyment of
- to give, admit or allow unwillingly
(Collins English Dictionary)
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Begrudge stems from the Middle English grudge, which is from "grucchen" by way of the Old French "groucher," meaning to murmur or grumble.
Scientists are known to sometimes begrudge the work of colleagues. There was talk of giving the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Thomas Edison and the famously eccentric electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. However, Tesla and Edison both shared an intense dislike for each other.
The honour went instead to a Swedish inventor of lesser merit - Nils Gustaf Dalen - for his invention of automatic regulators. The result was that Edison, one of the great inventors of all time, never won a Nobel Prize.
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SYNONYMS
be jealous, be reluctant, be stingy, covet, eat one's heart out, envy, grudge, resent
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I don't begrudge him his promotion. He earned it."
