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[ US /ɹiˈzɪst, ɹɪˈzɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈɪst/ ]
VERB
  1. express opposition through action or words
    dissent to the laws of the country
  2. withstand the force of something
    The trees resisted her
    The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow
    stand the test of time
  3. refuse to comply
  4. elude, especially in a baffling way
    This behavior defies explanation
  5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
    His body rejected the liver of the donor
  6. stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something

How To Use resist In A Sentence

  • The study also examined blood plasma levels of atazanavir, residual (low-level) viraemia, and drug resistance mutations. Undefined
  • The difference in the power of the system to absorb different substances, appropriate whatever can be utilized, and throw off whatever can not be used, is sometimes called idiosyncrasy, but more properly it may be called vital resistance, and upon the integrity of this power rests the ability to combat disease in all its forms, whether it be the absorption of any animal virus or the poison resulting from undigested food. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • No hay mal que dure 100 años ni cuerpo que lo resista.. aunque me enamore un marte no hay mal que por bien no venga. I hate hate hate hate hate what they've done to Blogrolling.
  • Tanks often attacked the outskirts of the city in skirmishes with resistance fighters, adding to the chaos and unrest.
  • Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
  • Once the more resistant gently dipping rocks of the Cotswolds have been removed, the underlying softer beds are easily eroded, so the Jurassic escarpments to the east of the Vales of Evesham and Gloucester retreated through time.
  • That should give you the flavor of this very enjoyable book; but I can't resist adding a couple of the apothegms that stood out to me.
  • Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
  • The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
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