Sentiment d'animosité durable et caché, souvent accompagné du désir de se venger, que quelqu'un porte à quelqu'un d'autre dont il estime avoir eu à se plaindre : Il lui a gardé rancune de cette injustice.
A feeling of lasting and hidden animosity, often accompanied by the desire for revenge, that someone carries to someone else whom he feels he has had to complain about: He has held a grudge against this injustice.