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resent
[ ri-zent ]
verb (used with object)
- to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
resent
/ rɪˈzɛnt /
verb
- tr to feel bitter, indignant, or aggrieved at
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Other Words From
- re·senting·ly adverb
- re·sentive adjective
- unre·sented adjective
- unre·senting adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of resent1
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Example Sentences
One in four of us are forced to live through the violent assaults that these men resent being made cognizant of.
Then you resent those who do still use power like the United States.
But Erdogan has succeeded by governing with a controlling style that many Turks are growing to resent.
But that headline could have also easily lamented: Nurses Doubt Doctors Abilities, Resent Salaries.
Teresi added that in truth, he didn't resent most physicists for complaining.
His silence had frightened her: what if he should resent on her the cruel words spoken by Dr. Ashton?
For a moment, as the mistress of Skyrie surveyed these more substantial offerings she was inclined to resent them.
The parents of the latter resent the innovation; almost every Jewish child receives religious training at home or in cheidar.
Ida was, however, rather pleased to see that he accepted the fact good-humoredly and did not resent it.
He will naturally resent it; it would deprive us of his friendship or regard: nay it would, perhaps, make him hate us.
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