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Meaning:

Verb:

  • In a negative sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
  • In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
  • resend
  • To be sensible of; to feel
  • To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.
  • To feel resentment.
  • To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
  • 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).

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