"resist" Definition

Definitions for the word "resist" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To be distasteful to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To make opposition.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
1 withstand the action or effect of. 2 stop the course or progress of. 3 abstain from (pleasure, temptation, etc.). 4 strive against; try to impede; refuse to comply with (resist arrest). 5 offer opposition; refuse to comply. n. Protective coating of a resistant substance. resistible adj. [latin sisto stop]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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