resent

[ri-zent]

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verb (used with object)

to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.

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Origin of resent

1595–1605; < French ressentir to be angry < Old French resentir, equivalent to re- re- + sentir to feel < Latin sentīre; see sense

Related formsre·sent·ing·ly, adverbre·sent·ive, adjectiveun·re·sent·ed, adjectiveun·re·sent·ing, adjective

Can be confusedbegrudge regret resent (see synonym study at regret)

resend

[ree-send]

verb (used with object), re·sent, re·send·ing.

to send again.

to send back.

Origin of resend

First recorded in 1545–55; re- + send¹

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Examples from the Web for resent

Contemporary Examples of resent

Then you resent those who do still use power like the United States.
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Michael Moynihan
November 17, 2013
But Erdogan has succeeded by governing with a controlling style that many Turks are growing to resent.
As Police Cede Taksim Square, Istanbul Remains On Edge
Mike Giglio
June 2, 2013
But that headline could have also easily lamented: Nurses Doubt Doctors Abilities, Resent Salaries.
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Daniela Drake
May 27, 2013
We cannot resent modernism and continue behaving in the culturally reactionary way we do now.
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Michael Tomasky
February 27, 2013
They resent themselves and others and that resentment finds violent expression.
South Africa Rallies Against Fatal Gang Rape
Eusebius McKaiser
February 10, 2013

Historical Examples of resent

Not only do we drop the subject there, but we resent it if everyone else does not drop the subject there.
The Conquest of Fear
Basil King
The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.
The Conquest of Fear
Basil King
He followed her, and, because they were old neighbors, she did not resent it when he put his hand on her shoulder.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
By all the wives that he held most sacred, he felt impelled to resent it.
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870
Various
She could not be blind to the mute adoration of his gaze; nor could she resent it.
The Black Bag
Louis Joseph Vance

British Dictionary definitions for resent

resent

verb

(tr) to feel bitter, indignant, or aggrieved at

Word Origin for resent

C17: from French ressentir, from re- + sentir to feel, from Latin sentīre to perceive; see sense

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Word Origin and History for resent

"take (something) ill; be in some degree angry or provoked at," c.1600, from French ressentir "feel pain, regret," from Old French resentir "feel again, feel in turn" (13c.), from re-, intensive prefix, + sentir "to feel," from Latin sentire (see sense (n.)). Related: Resented; resenting.

resend

1550s, from re- + send. Related: Resent; resending.