transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪzɪst ]
( resists, resisting, resisted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you resist something such as a change, you refuse to accept it and try to prevent it.
She says she will resist a single European currency being imposed...
They resisted our attempts to modernize the distribution of books.
= oppose
VERB : V n -ing , V n
2.
If you resist someone or resist an attack by them, you fight back against them.
The man was shot outside his house as he tried to resist arrest...
When she had attempted to cut his nails he resisted.
VERB : V n , V
3.
If you resist doing something, or resist the temptation to do it, you stop yourself from doing it although you would like to do it.
Students should resist the temptation to focus on exams alone...
VERB : oft with neg , V n / -ing
4.
If someone or something resists damage of some kind, they are not damaged.
...bodies trained and toughened to resist the cold...
= withstand
VERB : V n