RESENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resent mean? 

• RESENT (verb)
  The verb RESENT has 2 senses:

1. feel bitter or indignant about

2. wish ill or allow unwillingly

  Familiarity information: RESENT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resent    ... he / she / it resents   
Past simple: resented   
Past participle: resented   
-ing form: resenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel bitter or indignant about

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

She resents being paid less than her co-workers

Hypernyms (to "resent" is one way to...):

dislike (have or feel a dislike or distaste for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resent"):

grudge; stew (bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot resent Sue
Sam and Sue resent the movie

Derivation:

resentment (a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wish ill or allow unwillingly

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

begrudge; resent

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Don't resent (as I think you have a general disposition to do) what may be uncongenial to you in him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was talking at Fanny, and resenting this private walk half through the dinner.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was mad enough, however, to resent.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Isabella could not be aware of the pain she was inflicting; but it was a degree of wilful thoughtlessness which Catherine could not but resent.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was like the trap, and all his instinct resented it and revolted against it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes? And very handsome ones they are, too," cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature thoughts I began to doubt whether I was injured or no.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have no such injuries to resent.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Settin' a fine example to the children," Mr. Higginbotham snorted, suddenly, in the silence for which his wife was responsible and which he resented.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I very much resent any interruption to my work, Dr. Watson, but this case is certainly exceptional.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)