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RESENT
resent
(verb) feel bitter or indignant about; “She resents being paid less than her co-workers”
begrudge, resent
(verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
resent (third-person singular simple present resents, present participle resenting, simple past and past participle resented)
(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
(transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.
(transitive, obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
(transitive, obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
(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).
(obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
Etymology 2
See resend.
Verb
resent
simple past tense and past participle of resend
Anagrams
• Enters, Ernest, Senter, enters, entres, ernest, nester, renest, rentes, strene, tenser, treens
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sent" (r-znt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resented; p. pr. & vb. n. Resenting.] Etym: [F. ressentir; L. pref. re- re- + sentire to feel. See Sense.]
1. To be sensible of; to feel; as: (a) 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.
(b) 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.
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.
RESEND
Re*send" (r-snd"), v. t.
1. To send again; as, to resend a message.
2. To send back; as, to resend a gift. [Obs.] Shak.
3. (Telegraphy)
Definition: To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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