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US
/ɹiˈzɪst, ɹɪˈzɪst/
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[ UK /ɹɪsˈɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈɪst/ ]
VERB
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express opposition through action or words
dissent to the laws of the country -
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 - refuse to comply
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elude, especially in a baffling way
This behavior defies explanation -
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
His body rejected the liver of the donor - 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
- 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.
- Every protestation that she should go on this outing was clearly a plea for her to stay and resist the invitation.
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
- Tanks often attacked the outskirts of the city in skirmishes with resistance fighters, adding to the chaos and unrest.
- You are entering a period when you will emit such strong personal magnetism that no one will be able to resist you. The Sun