resent

Meaning

Verb

• To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
• To express displeasure or indignation at.
• To be sensible of; to feel.
• In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
• 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).
• To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
• Past of resend

Origin

• From Middle French ressentir, resentir, from Old French resentir (Modern ressentir), from re- + sentir
• See resend.