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Meaning of 'resist' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Resist [ n.]
- 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.
2 . Resist [ v. i.]
- To make opposition.
3 . Resist [ v. t.]
- To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
- To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
- To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
- To be distasteful to.

Meaning of 'resist' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . resist [ v]
Meaning (1):
- express opposition through action or words
Example in sentence:
  • dissent to the laws of the country
Meaning (2):
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
Example in sentence:
  • His body rejected the liver of the donor
Meaning (3):
- withstand the force of something
Example in sentence:
  • stand the test of time;
  • The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow;
  • The trees resisted her
Meaning (4):
- elude, especially in a baffling way
Example in sentence:
  • This behavior defies explanation

Nearby Words:

res resail resale resalgar resalute resaw rescat rescind rescindable rescinded

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