Grudge vs Rage - What's the difference?

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Grudge is a related term of rage.

As verbs the difference between grudge and rage

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

As a noun grudge

is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.

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

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)

Derived terms

* grudgingly

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rage

English

Noun

(en noun)

Violent uncontrolled anger.

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

A current fashion or fad.

(lb) Any vehement passion.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:in great rage of pain

* (1800-1859)

*:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.

*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

*:convulsed with a rage of grief

Synonyms

* fury * ire

Derived terms

* pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rage

Verb

(rag)

(label) To act or speak in heightened anger.

(label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.

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, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.

(label) To enrage.

(Shakespeare)

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