Usually means: Desires others' possessions or qualities.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. envies: Merriam-Webster
  2. envies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. envies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. envies: Vocabulary.com
  5. envies: Wordnik
  6. envies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. envies: Wiktionary
  8. Envies, envies: Dictionary.com
  9. envies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Envies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Envies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. envies: FreeDictionary.org
  13. envies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. envies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. envies: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. envies: Medical dictionary

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(Note: See envy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (envy)

noun:  Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
noun:  An object of envious notice or feeling.
noun:  (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
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.
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