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Grudge vs Bitter - What's the difference?

grudge | bitter |

As nouns the difference between grudge and bitter

is that grudge is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone while bitter is (usually in the plural bitters) a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

As verbs the difference between grudge and bitter

is that grudge is (obsolete) to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied while bitter is to make bitter.

As an adjective bitter is

having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

grudge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
    • to hold a grudge against someone
    to have a grudge against someone
    to bear a grudge against someone
  • * 1607 , Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt , ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:
    • Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
    I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
    He ?hall haue two ?teele bullets ?trongly charg’d
  • * 1879 , Henry James, The American , Rinehart, page 288:
    • I have never mentioned it to a human creature ; I have kept my grudge' to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my ' grudge has grown old with me.
  • * 2001 , H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions , Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:
    • It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge , for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.

    Derived terms

    * hold a grudge * have a grudge * bear a grudge

    Related terms

    * grudge match

    Verb

    (grudg)
  • (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
    • And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
  • To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
  • * 1608 , Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608. , reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6:
    • Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
  • * 1841 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register , Rivingtons, page 430:
    • If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
  • * 1869 , Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment , Fields, Osgood, & Co., p. 62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dk8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62#v=onepage&f=false]:
    • Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
  • * 1953 , , Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:
    • I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
  • (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
  • (obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.
    • (Bishop Fisher)

    Related terms

    * begrudge * grudgery

    Derived terms

    * grudgingly

    References

    Anagrams

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    bitter

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter , he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging.
  • :
  • *1999 , (Neil Gaiman), Stardust , p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
  • *:It was at the end of February,.
  • Hateful or hostile.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) iii. 19
  • *:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Cynical and resentful.
  • :

    • Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form (bitterer) and superlative form (bitterest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).

    Derived terms

    * bitter pill to swallow

    See also

    * bitter end

    Antonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) optimistic

    Synonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) jaded

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
  • * 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
    • Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
    "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
  • (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.

    • Derived terms

    * brought up to a bitter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make bitter.
    • (Wolcott)
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