meaning of resist
1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
3. To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
4. To be distasteful to.
5. To make opposition.
6. 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. withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and
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