Thesaurus: resist

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1. v. t. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
2. v. t. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
3. v. t. To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
4. v. t. To be distasteful to.
5. v. i. To make opposition.
6. 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.
7. v. elude, especially in a baffling way
8. v. stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
9. v. express opposition through action or words
10. v. withstand the force of something
11. v. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
12. v. refuse to comply