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Mar 28, 2012 This week's theme Verbs This week's words subsume discomfit begrudge avulse machinate Have your say in our discussion forum Wordsmith Talk Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg begrudge PRONUNCIATION: (bi-GRUHJ) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To envy or resent someone's good fortune. 2. To be reluctant to give. ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English grudgen (to grumble, complain), from Old French grouchier. Earliest documented use: around 1390. USAGE: "We do not begrudge Bill Gates or Warren Buffett their billions." Dani Rodrik; Free-Trade Blinders; BusinessDay (Lagos, Nigeria); Mar 12, 2012. "We'd always been an exclusive pair, she never begrudging me with her secrets." Leif Enger; Peace Like A River; Grove/Atlantic; 2001. Explore "begrudge" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

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