resist
ri zist
- v elude, especially in a baffling way
- v stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
- v express opposition through action or words
- v withstand the force of something
The trees resisted her - v resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- v refuse to comply
- Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter do their best to resist (with mixed results) in this parable about McCarthyism, which remains a suspenseful (and still relevant) icon of its era.
- Yet Ciccone is unable or unwilling to resist her magnetism.
- From the testimony, she emerged as a simple, stoic girl who resigned herself to her early mistreatment, only to become too numbed and weakened by its later savagery to resist.