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What (who) is Resist - definition
resist
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RESIST; Resist (song); Resist (album)
v. a.
1.
Oppose, withstand, impugn, confront, assail, attack, strive against, counteract, rebuff, stand against.
2.
Withstand, hinder, check, thwart, baffle, disappoint.
resist
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RESIST; Resist (song); Resist (album)
(resists, resisting, resisted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you resist something such as a change, you refuse to accept it and try to prevent it.
She says she will resist a single European currency being imposed...
They resisted our attempts to modernize the distribution of books.
= oppose
VERB: V n -ing, V n
2.
If you resist someone or resist an attack by them, you fight back against them.
The man was shot outside his house as he tried to resist arrest...
When she had attempted to cut his nails he resisted.
VERB: V n, V
3.
If you resist doing something, or resist the temptation to do it, you stop yourself from doing it although you would like to do it.
Students should resist the temptation to focus on exams alone...
VERB: oft with neg, V n/-ing
4.
If someone or something resists damage of some kind, they are not damaged.
...bodies trained and toughened to resist the cold...
= withstand
VERB: V n
Resist
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RESIST; Resist (song); Resist (album)
·vi To make opposition.
II. Resist ·vt To be distasteful to.
III. Resist ·vt To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
IV. Resist ·add. ·noun Something that resists or prevents a certain action;.
VI. Resist ·add. ·noun A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent.
VII. Resist ·vt To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to Oppose.
VIII. Resist ·noun A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, ·etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
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Resist
A resist, used in many areas of manufacturing and art, is something that is added to parts of an object to create a pattern by protecting these parts from being affected by a subsequent stage in the process.OED, "Resist", 3.
Examples of use of Resist
1. She could not resist his charm, he could not resist her beauty.
2. He said: "It‘s something that we must resist – we must resist that by deploying the appropriate number of forces.
3. "Often they cannot resist those pleading eyes and it takes a lot of determination from the owners to resist.
4. "We said anyone who wants to resist should maybe leave Beit Hanoun and resist from outside," he said.
5. President Saleh will hopefully resist the temptation.