Meaning

(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
2. (transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
4. (transitive, obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
5. (obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent, to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
6. (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
7. simple past and past participle of resend

Example Sentences

The bride greatly resented being left at the church.

These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.

Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].

[…] of all the sections of a ship's company, the forecastlemen, veterans for the most part and bigoted in their sea-prejudices, are the most jealous in resenting territorial encroachments […]

so that they resent recent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize them.

Boys’ basketball boosters say something is missing in the stands at away games, cheerleaders resent not being able to meet their rivals on the road, and even female basketball players being hurrahed are unhappy.

Do you resent us for offering you that choice?

The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.

Word Forms

• resents
• resenting
• resented
• re-sent

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