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# resist

«resist» in Mova's school dictionary: **to fight against something or refuse to accept it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (resist, resists, resisted, resisting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To resist is to fight against something or refuse to accept it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#m1)

2) To resist something tempting is to stop yourself from doing or having it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#m2)

3) To resist something like water, heat or damage is not to be harmed by it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#m3)

4) In science, to resist means to slow down or oppose the flow of something, like electricity or movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, materials resist water (waterproof), heat or electric current; air resistance resists movement. In everyday life you try to resist eating all the chocolate. In stories and history, people resist an enemy or unfair laws. Phrases: resist the urge, can't resist, resist arrest, water-resistant, heat-resistant.

### examples

- I couldn't resist eating another biscuit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x1)
- This watch can resist water up to 50 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x2)
- The villagers resisted the invaders for weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x3)
- The thief tried to resist arrest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x4)
- Rubber resists the flow of electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x5)
- She resisted the urge to laugh in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x6)
- The children resisted going to bed early. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x7)
- The offer was very tempting, and Stan could not resist it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Nouns: «resistance» (and «resistor», an electric part). Adjective: «resistant» (water-resistant). In science, air resistance is a force that slows falling or moving things.

### In the corpora

- ["Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/5/)
- [Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/16/)
- [The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/8/)
- [Reinforced concrete has steel bars inside it so it can resist stretching as well as squashing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/86-building-strong-things/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «resist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.