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English

1. 🔊 the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
   “he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens”
2. 🔊 the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
   “the enemy offered little resistance”
3. 🔊 group action in opposition to those in power
4. 🔊 (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
5. 🔊 the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
6. 🔊 any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
7. 🔊 the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
   “these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog”
8. 🔊 an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
9. 🔊 a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
10. 🔊 (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
11. 🔊 a material's opposition to the flow of electric current

Spanish

1. 🔊 resistencia resistance
2. 🔊 aguante resistance, strength

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