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Verb: envy  en-vee
  1. Feel envious towards; admire enviously
     
  2. Be envious of; set one's heart on
    - begrudge
Noun: envy  en-vee
  1. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
    - enviousness
     
  2. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    - invidia

Derived forms: envies, envied, envying

Type of: acrimoniousness, admire, bile, bitterness, deadly sin, desire, gall, hard feelings, ill feeling, look up to, mortal sin, rancor [US], rancour [Brit, Cdn], resentment, want

Encyclopedia: Envy, United States Virgin Islands