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Resent Common

Resent has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

feel bitter or indignant about

"She resents being paid less than her co-workers"

2

wish ill or allow unwillingly

"She resentfully allowed him to borrow her car even though she knew he would damage it, hoping his bad luck would follow him home."

3

To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

"I resent that email to him again because he never received it last time."

4

simple past tense and past participle of resend

Related Terms
Antonyms
wish well
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
dislike
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
stew
Rhyming Words
ent bent ment went sent vent pent hent cent fent dent tent kent gent rent lent djent ament seent brent
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