Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To feel indignantly aggrieved at.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To perceive by the senses; have a keen or strong sense, perception, or feeling of; be affected by.
  • Hence
  • To scent; perceive by the sense of smell.
  • To give the odor of; present to the sense of smell.
  • To have a certain sense or feeling at something; take well or ill; have satisfaction from or regret for.
  • To take ill; consider as an injury or affront; be in some degree angry or provoked at; hence, also, to show anger by words or acts.
  • To bear; endure.
  • Synonyms See anger.
  • To have a, certain flavor; savor.
  • To feel resentment; be indignant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete, obsolete To be sensible of; to feel.
  • transitive verb obsolete In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
  • transitive verb In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
  • transitive verb To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.
  • transitive verb obsolete To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.
  • intransitive verb To feel resentment.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts).
  • verb To feel resentment.
  • verb obsolete To be sensible of; to feel.
  • verb obsolete In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
  • verb obsolete In a negative sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
  • verb 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).
  • verb obsolete To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of resend.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb feel bitter or indignant about
  • verb wish ill or allow unwillingly

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French ressentir, to feel (a sensation or emotion), resent, from Old French resentir : re-, re- + sentir, to feel (from Latin sentīre; see sent- in Indo-European roots).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French resentir (Modern ressentir), from re- + sentir ("to feel")

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See resend.

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Examples

  • What people resent is that CEOs are earning many hundreds of times more than the average employee, earning bonuses for running companies into the ground, and awarding themselves multi-million dollar golden parachutes when they leave a company after laying off half the staff with two weeks notice and no parachute.

    Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010

  • She†™ s more hardcore then the Six and can chanel the Specter, which is the only mystical being she ever showed to need proximity to steal his powers in resent DC history.

    Dueling Review: Secret Six #16 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • I have spent an hour on "Google" and have found many many reports in resent months of this problem not only in California but along the whole border, and even on both mainlands.

    California Kidnapping Mexico Boarder 2008

  • So the pressure I resent is not being applied to me -- it's making people I really like miserable.

    Rant about blogging pressure part 2 msagara 2008

  • '' What I really resent is that people underestimated me, '' she said.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • '' What I really resent is that people underestimated me, '' she said.

    En elle tout séduit Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • What they resent is rather carping criticism of the farmer for not minding his own business.

    The Wheat Situation 1930

  • What I particularly resent is the attitude of Charlie Sands.

    Tish 1916

  • "lie on the table," and will hoot, laugh, and stare at the second; will, in short, resent either novelty as an unwarrantable intrusion, for no other discernible reason than that people in general are not used to it.

    Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856

  • She’s more hardcore then the Six and can chanel the Specter, which is the only mystical being she ever showed to need proximity to steal his powers in resent DC history.

    Dueling Review: Secret Six #16 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

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  • A friend of mine today forwarded an email to me from someone who was trying to get in touch with me. He had written to my friend this message:

    Could you please make sure Rolig gets the following. I sent it earlier, but the internet "MAILER-daemon" said the address wasn't properly configured. I resent it, but please make sure he gets this.

    I told him there was no need for resentment just because of some email glitch.

    April 14, 2009

  • Haha! I have the same problem with this unhyphenated "re-sent."

    April 16, 2009