grudge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To be reluctant to give or admit: even grudged the tuition money.
2. v. To resent for having; begrudge: grudged him his good ways with the children.
3. n. A deep-seated feeling of resentment or rancor: bears a grudge about the accident.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To be unwilling or reluctant.
2. To cherish ill-will; bear a grudge.
3. To be sorry; grieve.
4. To murmur; grumble.
5. To envy; wish to deprive of something.
6. To give or permit with reluctance; grant or submit to unwillingly; begrudge.
7. To entertain by way of grudge.
8. n. Ill-will excited by some special cause, as a personal injury or insult, successful rivalry, etc.; secret enmity; spite.
9. n. Unwillingness; reluctance.
10. n. Synonyms Animosity, Ill-will, Enmity, etc. See animosity.
11. To crumble; crunch.
12. To squeeze; press down.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.
2. v. obsolete To hold or harbor with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
3. v. To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
4. v. obsolete To feel compunction or grief.
5. n. Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel.
6. n. obsolete Slight symptom of disease.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
2. v. accept or admit unwillingly
3. v. bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings