resisting

Verb

resist (third-person singular simple present resists, present participle resisting, simple past and past participle resisted)

1. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
   • Shepard: You could have resisted. You could have fought! Instead, you surrendered. You quit.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
2. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
   • At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe...1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202
3. (intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.

   Synonyms:

   hold out

4. (obsolete, transitive) To be distasteful to.
   • These cates resist me,c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...

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