Synonyms of the word begrudge


BEGRUDGEDESIRE - ENVY - RESENT - WANT

begrudge

  • v. To grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.
  • v. To be reluctant.
  • v. To give reluctantly.

desire

  • v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
  • v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
  • v. To want emotionally or sexually.
  • v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
  • v. To require; to demand; to claim.
  • v. To miss; to regret.
  • n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
  • n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
  • n. (uncountable) Motivation.
  • n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

envy

  • n. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
  • n. An object of envious notice or feeling.
  • n. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
  • n. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
  • n. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
  • v. (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
  • v. (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
  • v. (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
  • v. (obsolete) To hate.
  • v. (obsolete) To emulate.

resent

  • v. To express displeasure or indignation at.
  • v. To feel resentment.
  • v. (obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
  • v. (obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
  • v. (obsolete) In a negative sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
  • v. (obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent,…
  • v. (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of resend.

want

  • v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
  • v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
  • v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
  • v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
  • n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
  • n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
  • n. (uncountable) Poverty.
  • n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
  • n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

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