verbto fight against something, not to give in to something ExamplesThe chairman resisted all attempts to make him resign. • The company is resisting the takeover bid.
Related information about resist:
- RESIST | Funding social change since 1967
Funding American progressive organizations for more than 30 years which are actively part of a movement for social change.
- Resist | Define Resist at Dictionary.com
to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation. 2. to withstand the action or effect of: to resist spoilage. 3. to refrain or abstain from, ...
- resist - definition of resist by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ...
v. re·sist·ed, re·sist·ing, re·sists. v.tr. 1. To strive to fend off or offset the actions, effects, or force of. 2. To remain firm against the actions, effects, or force of; ...
- Resist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In semiconductor fabrication, a resist is a thin layer used to transfer a circuit pattern to the semiconductor substrate which it is deposited upon. A resist can be ...
- Resist - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
to exert oneself so as to counteract or defeat <he resisted temptation>. 2. : to withstand the force or effect of <material that resists heat>. See resist defined for ...
- The Insurgent
A white supremacist organization headed by Tom Metzger and based in California.
- Resist!ca | appropriate technology
The Resist!ca Collective maintains an anarchist news site focused on happenings in Canada.
- resist - Wiktionary
resist (third-person singular simple present resists, present participle resisting, simple past and past participle resisted). (transitive) To attempt to counter the ...