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resist

English

  1. 🔊 withstand the force of something
    “The trees resisted her”
  2. 🔊 stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
  3. 🔊 refuse to comply
  4. 🔊 resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
    “His body rejected the liver of the donor”
  5. 🔊 express opposition through action or words
    “dissent to the laws of the country”
  6. 🔊 elude, especially in a baffling way
    “This behavior defies explanation”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 contrastar to resist
  2. 🔊 resistir to resist

Similar words

stand fend hold out withstand stand firm protest dissent balk baulk jib defy refuse reject refuse antagonize arrest assail assault attack baffle balk battle be antipathetic be at cross-purposes