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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resent
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
▪ He had always resented the amount his son ate.
▪ Carolyn had always resented being left behind, and clamoured for the shops with their sweets, toys and new clothes.
▪ Although devoted to his father's memory he always resented his extravagance and improvidence.
bitterly
▪ Everything about him assailed her senses in a way she resented bitterly yet seemed unable to do anything about.
▪ The blacks bitterly resented being searched and insisted on their innocence.
▪ But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference.
▪ In government, it is a control function-and managers bitterly resent it.
▪ It hadn't been her imagination, and she bitterly resented the hypocrisy of his charge.
▪ She bitterly resented her husband's domination by his younger brother.
▪ This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king's subjects.
deeply
▪ Muhammad Reza deeply resented the way in which his country was once again being governed by its old enemies.
▪ The mortgage traders deeply resented the corporate and government traders.
▪ Many solicitors deeply resent the treatment they feel they have received over their remuneration.
▪ Quite frankly I deeply resent you implying that I would be involved with a thug like that.
▪ There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus, although now I think I have killed this feeling.
strongly
▪ I strongly resent having my views sought in such an underhand way.
■ NOUN
fact
▪ Siobhan resents the fact that the mainstream broadcasting industry is presented as the only way of working.
▪ They resented the fact that they were continually invited to the parties and were unable to refuse.
intrusion
▪ Perhaps she was not feeling well, or it could be that she resented Lissa's intrusion into the office.
▪ The miners probably resented the intrusion but must have been fearful of the possible consequences of this calamity.
▪ He must resent the impertinent intrusion of the big car.
presence
▪ It seems to me that they now resent the presence of the other fish.
▪ I had thought Derek and Kitty would resent my constant presence, but both seemed relieved.
way
▪ Muhammad Reza deeply resented the way in which his country was once again being governed by its old enemies.
▪ Now a generation of southern Republicans, brought up resenting the interfering ways of the federal government, is wielding disproportionate power.
▪ He resents his way with women, his universal adulation, his charisma.
▪ Ray resents and fears the way it makes him feel half dead.
▪ I also resented the way Millet was simpering at me.
woman
▪ But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference.
▪ I suppose I resented - oh, all the things women are supposed to resent.
▪ Some of the women resent me for it.
■ VERB
begin
▪ As with so many things, no sooner had he taken the idea to himself than he began to resent it passionately.
▪ But gradually that got old, and she began to resent the required evening events without Jan.
▪ Had she begun to resent my usurpation of her role as Edward's collaborator?
▪ She even began to resent the attention her baby boy received from others, as if he had displaced her.
seem
▪ None the less, viewers seemed to resent their lack of choice and lack of control over what they saw.
▪ In any case these men seemed to resent the idea of having to become farmers.
▪ Travis would not give any explanation when asked about her whereabouts and seemed to resent her parents' questions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, she even resented him spending his.
▪ Everything about him assailed her senses in a way she resented bitterly yet seemed unable to do anything about.
▪ He resented the cult of those religions.
▪ He does riot resent the subsidized women and children themselves.
▪ It was a part which had only grown up in her recently and whose constraining effect she resented very much.
▪ McFarlane knew it, and resented it.
▪ No one resents Mino's success.
▪ They resented the fact that they were continually invited to the parties and were unable to refuse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resent

Resent \Re*sent"\, v. i.

  1. To feel resentment.
    --Swift.

  2. To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor. [Obs.]

    The judicious prelate will prefer a drop of the sincere milk of the word before vessels full of traditionary pottage resenting of the wild gourd of human invention.
    --Fuller.

Resent

Resent \Re*sent"\ (r?-z?nt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resented; p. pr. & vb. n. Resenting.] [F. ressentir; L. pref. re- re- + sentire to feel. See Sense.]

  1. To be sensible of; to feel; as:

    1. In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. [Obs.]

      Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.
      --Sir T. Browne.

    2. In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

  2. To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.

    The good prince King James . . . bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely.
    --Bolingbroke.

  3. 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. [Obs.]

    This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul.
    --Fuller.

    Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift.
    --Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.

Wiktionary
resent

Etymology 1 vb. 1 To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts). 2 To feel resentment. Etymology 2

vb. (en-past of: resend)

WordNet
resent

  1. v. feel bitter or indignant about; "She resents being paid less than her co-workers"

  2. wish ill or allow unwillingly [syn: begrudge] [ant: wish]

Usage examples of "resent".

Ugly and at once it shrinks within itself, denies the thing, turns away from it, not accordant, resenting it.

Captain Barker, however, resented the marriage on the ground that she was out of place in a pavilion expressly designed for a confirmed bachelor.

His own organizers were so afraid people resented his absence that he spent all of Saturday barnstorming through the environs of Prince Albert.

Whether she regretted having given him as much encouragement as lay in a rose dropped from her corsage, or whether she resented the introduction into the party of so unprepossessing a gentleman as Mr Gumley, no one could tell, but although she relented towards him from time to time, even allowing her hand to rest in his for a moment longer than was necessary when he handed her down from the barouche, she was for the most part a little pettish in her manner, and made it plain that he could do nothing to please her.

Bonner really resented, it was hotshot enlisted like this super chief, clearly younger than Bonner, already making better money.

Still more they resented being sent south for skirmish duty while Brian Boru was assembling the main army at Dublin for the battle to determine the future of Ireland.

As Brek expected, the hierarch resented the assumption of equality in that look.

He resented the orders his father gave him and the quick way Clay made decisions, not consulting Bret, never explaining his reasons.

A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.

He, too, had had pleasure, of this I was certain, yet did the maleness of him resent the position in which he had had his pleasure.

The result was a curious one that Minks would certainly have resented with indignation.

No matter how you may mislike the bias, the Witan would resent the interference of a woman.

She resented being set aside, shut off from his presence, then brought out like some fragile porcelain doll that could not withstand the strain of being overheld, overloved, or overused, and be commanded to perform for his guests.

Miss Overmore had often said to her in reference to any fear that her mother might resent her prolonged detention.

However, Jones, though he had enough of the lover and of the heroe too in his disposition, did not resent these slanders as hastily as, perhaps, he ought to have done.