Associations to the word «Resent»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

RESENT, verb. Feel bitter or indignant about; "She resents being paid less than her co-workers".
RESENT, verb. Wish ill or allow unwillingly.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope