(envies, ~ing, envied)
1.
Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has.
Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of ~ towards his mother...
They gazed in a mixture of ~ and admiration at the beauty of the statue.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you ~ someone, you wish that you had the same things or qualities that they have.
I don’t ~ the young ones who’ve become TV superstars and know no other world...
He envied Caroline her peace...
VERB: V n, V n n
3.
If a thing or quality is the ~ of someone, they wish very much that they could have or achieve it.
...an economic expansion that was the ~ of many other states.
N-SING: the N of n
4.
green with ~: see green