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RESENT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel bitter or indignant about

Example:

She resents being paid less than her co-workers

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "resent" is one way to...):

dislike (have or feel a dislike or distaste for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resent"):

grudge; stew (bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot resent Sue

Sam and Sue resent the movie

Derivation:

resentment (a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wish ill or allow unwillingly

Synonyms:

begrudge; resent

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Credits

 Context examples: 

In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth, though resenting the suspicion, might yet be made observant by it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was himself regarded.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Edward heard with pleasure of Colonel Brandon's being expected at the Cottage, as he really wished not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford—Which, at present, said he, after thanks so ungraciously delivered as mine were on the occasion, he must think I have never forgiven him for offering.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You would not like to be long dependent on our hospitality—you would wish, I see, to dispense as soon as may be with my sisters' compassion, and, above all, with my charity (I am quite sensible of the distinction drawn, nor do I resent it—it is just): you desire to be independent of us?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We all have our own feelings, Sir Charles; and you will permit me to say that a serving-man may resent an injury as much as a gentleman, though the redress of the duel is denied to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I have been forgiven by one who had still more to resent.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This growl he could not suppress; nor did the man-animal resent it by giving him a blow on the head.

(White Fang, by Jack London)