Dictionary Entry
resist
resist is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
- 2transitive verb
To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
- 3transitive verb
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
- 4transitive verb
To be distasteful to.
- 5intransitive verb
To make opposition.
- 6noun
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.
- 7verb
withstand the force of something
"The trees resisted her"
"stand the test of time"
- 8verb
stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
Synonyms
- 9verb
express opposition through action or words
"dissent to the laws of the country"
- 10verb
refuse to comply
- 11verb
elude, especially in a baffling way
"This behavior defies explanation"
- 12verb
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
"His body rejected the liver of the donor"
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