Usually means: Feel bitter about someone's actions.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word resent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. resent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. resent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. resent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. resent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Resent, resent: Wordnik
  7. resent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. resent: Wiktionary
  9. resent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. resent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. resent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Resent, resent: Dictionary.com
  13. resent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. resent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Resent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. resent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. resent: Rhymezone
  18. resent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. resent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. resent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. resent: Free Dictionary
  22. resent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. resent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. resent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resent: Legal 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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