resent

verb
🔊/rɪˈzent/
🔊/rɪˈzent/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they resent
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he / she / it resents
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past simple resented
🔊/rɪˈzentɪd/
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past participle resented
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-ing form resenting
🔊/rɪˈzentɪŋ/
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  1. to feel bitter or angry about something, especially because you feel it is unfair愤恨;感到气愤;愤愤不平
    • resent something/somebody I deeply resented her criticism.我对她的批评感到非常气愤。🔊🔊
    • The children resented the new woman in their father’s life.孩子们对父亲一生中的新女人不满。
    • resent doing something He bitterly resents being treated like a child.他十分厌恶被别人当孩子对待。🔊🔊
    • resent somebody doing something She resented him making all the decisions.她讨厌什么事都要听他的。🔊🔊
    • (formal) She resented his making all the decisions.她讨厌什么事都要听他的。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • I resent the implication that I don't care about my father.我讨厌别人暗示我不关心父亲。
    • I resent the insinuation that I'm only interested in the money.我很生气,因为我只对这笔钱感兴趣。
    • She deeply resented the fact that her husband had been so successful.她丈夫已取得那么大的成功,对此她深感气愤。
    Topics Feelingsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • bitterly
    • deeply
    • greatly
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from obsolete French resentir, from re- (expressing intensive force) + sentir ‘feel’ (from Latin sentire). The early sense was ‘experience an emotion or sensation’, later ‘feel deeply’, giving rise to ‘feel aggrieved by’.