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▸ noun: An object of envious notice or feeling.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
▸ noun: 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
▸ noun: (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
▸ noun: A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
▸ verb: (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
▸ verb: (transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at).
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To hate.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To emulate.
Similar:
begrudge,
enviousness,
Invidia,
the green-eyed monster,
covetousness,
covetise,
greed,
avarice,
envie,
pleonexia,
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