verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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He had always resented the amount his son ate.
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Carolyn had always resented being left behind, and clamoured for the shops with their sweets, toys and new clothes.
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Although devoted to his father's memory he always resented his extravagance and improvidence.
bitterly
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Everything about him assailed her senses in a way she resented bitterly yet seemed unable to do anything about.
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The blacks bitterly resented being searched and insisted on their innocence.
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But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference.
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In government, it is a control function-and managers bitterly resent it.
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It hadn't been her imagination, and she bitterly resented the hypocrisy of his charge.
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She bitterly resented her husband's domination by his younger brother.
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This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king's subjects.
deeply
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Muhammad Reza deeply resented the way in which his country was once again being governed by its old enemies.
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The mortgage traders deeply resented the corporate and government traders.
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Many solicitors deeply resent the treatment they feel they have received over their remuneration.
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Quite frankly I deeply resent you implying that I would be involved with a thug like that.
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There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus, although now I think I have killed this feeling.
strongly
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I strongly resent having my views sought in such an underhand way.
■ NOUN
fact
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Siobhan resents the fact that the mainstream broadcasting industry is presented as the only way of working.
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They resented the fact that they were continually invited to the parties and were unable to refuse.
intrusion
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Perhaps she was not feeling well, or it could be that she resented Lissa's intrusion into the office.
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The miners probably resented the intrusion but must have been fearful of the possible consequences of this calamity.
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He must resent the impertinent intrusion of the big car.
presence
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It seems to me that they now resent the presence of the other fish.
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I had thought Derek and Kitty would resent my constant presence , but both seemed relieved.
way
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Muhammad Reza deeply resented the way in which his country was once again being governed by its old enemies.
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Now a generation of southern Republicans, brought up resenting the interfering ways of the federal government, is wielding disproportionate power.
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He resents his way with women, his universal adulation, his charisma.
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Ray resents and fears the way it makes him feel half dead.
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I also resented the way Millet was simpering at me.
woman
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But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference.
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I suppose I resented - oh, all the things women are supposed to resent.
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Some of the women resent me for it.
■ VERB
begin
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As with so many things, no sooner had he taken the idea to himself than he began to resent it passionately.
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But gradually that got old, and she began to resent the required evening events without Jan.
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Had she begun to resent my usurpation of her role as Edward's collaborator?
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She even began to resent the attention her baby boy received from others, as if he had displaced her.
seem
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None the less, viewers seemed to resent their lack of choice and lack of control over what they saw.
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In any case these men seemed to resent the idea of having to become farmers.
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Travis would not give any explanation when asked about her whereabouts and seemed to resent her parents' questions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, she even resented him spending his.
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Everything about him assailed her senses in a way she resented bitterly yet seemed unable to do anything about.
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He resented the cult of those religions.
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He does riot resent the subsidized women and children themselves.
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It was a part which had only grown up in her recently and whose constraining effect she resented very much.
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McFarlane knew it, and resented it.
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No one resents Mino's success.
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They resented the fact that they were continually invited to the parties and were unable to refuse.