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 ">snow"


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