Words Like RESIST

We have put together a list of words that are similar to RESIST.

27 Alternative Words Similar to resist

1 Defy Verb      Synonym Words Like Defy
2 Refuse Verb      Synonym Words Like Refuse
3 Withstand Verb      Synonym Words Like Withstand
4 Protest Verb      Synonym Words Like Protest
5 Dissent Verb      Synonym Words Like Dissent
6 Stand Verb      Synonym Words Like Stand
7 Reject Verb      Synonym Words Like Reject
8 Balk Verb      Synonym Words Like Balk
9 Baulk Verb      Synonym Words Like Baulk
10 Defend Verb      Synonym Words Like Defend
11 Escape Verb      Synonym Words Like Escape
12 Fight Verb      Synonym Words Like Fight
13 Oppose Verb      Synonym Words Like Oppose
14 React Verb      Synonym Words Like React
15 Respond Verb      Synonym Words Like Respond
16 Surrender Verb      Antonym Words Like Surrender
17 Resisted Verb-transitive      Form Words Like Resisted
18 Resisting Verb-transitive      Form Words Like Resisting
19 Reserve Noun      Variant Words Like Reserve
20 Arise Verb      Hyponym Words Like Arise
21 Strike Verb      Hyponym Words Like Strike
22 March Verb      Hyponym Words Like March
23 Demonstrate Verb      Hyponym Words Like Demonstrate
24 Rise Verb      Hyponym Words Like Rise
25 Hold Verb      Hyponym Words Like Hold
26 Outbrave Verb      Hyponym
27 Holdup Verb      Hyponym Words Like Holdup

2 examples of resist

1 The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow
2 stand the test of time

10 definitions of resist

1 To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
2 To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
3 To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
4 To be distasteful to.
5 To make opposition.
6 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; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
7 Something that resists or prevents a certain action
8 resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
9 express opposition through action or words
10 refuse to comply
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