Usually means: Feel bitter about someone's actions.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. resent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. resent: Merriam-Webster
  3. resent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. resent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. resent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. resent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Resent, resent: Wordnik
  8. resent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. resent: Wiktionary
  10. resent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. resent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. resent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Resent, resent: Dictionary.com
  14. resent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. resent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Resent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. resent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. resent: Rhymezone
  19. resent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. resent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. resent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. resent: FreeDictionary.org
  23. resent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. resent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. resent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resent: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See resented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
verb:  (transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
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).
verb:  (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

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