MEANING
1. To resent someone’s possession or enjoyment of something.
2. To be unwilling to give or spend something, or to do so resentfully.
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Words that belong together
- begrudge someone success
- begrudge a privilege
On the page
He begrudged his sister every word of praise.
She did not begrudge them their happiness, only their certainty.
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Word forms
- Base
- begrudge
- Past tense
- begrudged
- Past participle
- begrudged
- Present participle
- begrudging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- begrudge
- Present continuous
- am/is/are begrudging
- Present perfect
- have/has begrudged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been begrudging
- Past
- begrudged
- Past continuous
- was/were begrudging
- Past perfect
- had begrudged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been begrudging
- Future
- will begrudge
- Future continuous
- will be begrudging
- Future perfect
- will have begrudged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been begrudging
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: begrudge; begrudges; begrudged; begrudged; begrudging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: begrudges.
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