🇬🇧 Grudge meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To grudge means you really don’t want to give someone something—like your time, your toys, your money, or your help. You might still give it, but you feel annoyed, stingy, or grumpy about it on the inside. It’s like sharing while thinking, “Ugh, I don’t want to,” instead of, “Sure, no problem!”

Our dog grudged the mail carrier a friendly wag and offered suspicious barking instead.

I grudged my alarm clock mercy and hit snooze like a heroic warrior of sleep.

I grudge my homework every single second it steals from my video-game dreams.

I didn’t grudge my brother the last cookie, but my stomach wrote a very sad song about it.

The teacher grudged us extra recess after we turned the classroom into a paper-airplane airport.

She did grudge every coin she slid across the table, eyes sharp. She could not grudge the ten minutes she sat while he ate. She would grudge giving the warm coat and she tried not to grudge the last piece of bread. He hugged her; she did not grudge the hug.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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