Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to resist
Participle: resisted
Gerund: resisting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | resist |
| you | resist |
| he;she;it | resists |
| we | resist |
| you | resist |
| they | resist |
Perfect
| I | have resisted |
| you | have resisted |
| he;she;it | has resisted |
| we | have resisted |
| you | have resisted |
| they | have resisted |
Past
| I | resisted |
| you | resisted |
| he;she;it | resisted |
| we | resisted |
| you | resisted |
| they | resisted |
Pluperfect
| I | had resisted |
| you | had resisted |
| he;she;it | had resisted |
| we | had resisted |
| you | had resisted |
| they | had resisted |
Future
| I | will resist |
| you | will resist |
| he;she;it | will resist |
| we | will resist |
| you | will resist |
| they | will resist |
Future Perfect
| I | will have resisted |
| you | will have resisted |
| he;she;it | will have resisted |
| we | will have resisted |
| you | will have resisted |
| they | will have resisted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | resist |
| you | resist |
| he;she;it | resist |
| we | resist |
| you | resist |
| they | resist |
Perfect
| I | have resisted |
| you | have resisted |
| he;she;it | have resisted |
| we | have resisted |
| you | have resisted |
| they | have resisted |
Imperfect
| I | resisted |
| you | resisted |
| he;she;it | resisted |
| we | resisted |
| you | resisted |
| they | resisted |
Pluperfect
| I | had resisted |
| you | had resisted |
| he;she;it | had resisted |
| we | had resisted |
| you | had resisted |
| they | had resisted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would resist |
| you | would resist |
| he;she;it | would resist |
| we | would resist |
| you | would resist |
| they | would resist |
Perfect
| I | would have resisted |
| you | would have resisted |
| he;she;it | would have resisted |
| we | would have resisted |
| you | would have resisted |
| they | would have resisted |
Imperative
| you | resist |
| we | Let's resist |
| you | resist |
Verbs conjugated like 'resist'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'resist'
desist,
relist,
resift,
resit,
absist,
assist,
bemist,
besit,
delist,
demist,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To withstand the actions of.
- persevere
- oppose
- combat, contest, assail, counteract, defy, endure, buck, confront
Antonyms
- bend slightly when a force is applied
- give
- oppose
- approve, applaud, aid, attest
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1374, from O.Fr.
resister, from L.
resistere "to resist, to stand back, withstand," from
re- "against" +
sistere "take a stand, stand firm" (see assist).
Resistance is attested from 1417, from O.Fr.
resistence, from L.L.
resistentia, from L.
resistentem (nom.
resistens), prp. of
resistere. Sense of "organized covert opposition to an occupying power" first recorded 1940 in reference to Fr. opposition to Nazi rule. Since applied to similar organizations (e.g. anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan, 1980s). Electromagnetic sense is from 1860.
2. From Middle English resisten, from Middle French resister and Old French resistre, and their source, Latin resistere, from re- + sistere (“cause to stand”). See: Middle English '
resisten', Middle French '
resister', Old French '
resistre', Latin '
resisto'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] of the tomb were around her: no mother 's smile called forth her answering smile, no father 's voice taught her to imitate his sounds:—they, brothers and sisters, were but forms of matter which resisted her touch, but which differed not from the furniture of the house, save in warmth, and in the power of locomotion; and not even in these respects from the dog and the cat.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] bed was provided for her on the settle, near the fire; and, after a short time, she fell into a heavy slumber, with the child, who seemed no less weary, soundly sleeping on her arm; for the mother resisted, with nervous anxiety, the kindest attempts to take him from her; and, even in sleep, her arm encircled him with an unrelaxing clasp, as if she could not even then be beguiled of her vigilant hold.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] dressed, with a round, good-natured countenance, and something rather fussy and particular in his appearance. He was very careful of his valise and umbrella, bringing them in with his own hands, and resisting, pertinaciously, all offers from the various servants to relieve him of them. He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ If man should _ever_ resist evil, ” said Simeon, “ then George should feel free to do it now: but the leaders of our people taught a more excellent way; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God; but it goes [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of mankind. Blot out, ye friends of slavery, from the catalogue of human passions, brutal lust, cruelty, and the abuse of irresponsible power (of all earthly temptations the most difficult to be resisted ), and when ye have done so, and not before, we will inquire whether it be the interest of a master to lash and maim the slaves, over whose lives and limbs he has an absolute control !
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] that was approaching. The child felt no pain,—only a tranquil, soft weakness, daily and almost insensibly increasing; and she was so beautiful, so loving, so trustful, so happy, that one could not resist the soothing influence of that air of innocence and peace which seemed to breathe around her. St. Clare found a strange calm coming over him. It was not hope,—that was impossible; it was not [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] man ! there's no earthly thing that he's too good to do. I could make any one's hair rise, and their teeth chatter, if I should only tell what I 've seen and been knowing to, here,—and it's no use resisting ! Did I _want_ to live with him ? Wasn't I a woman delicately bred; and he,—God in heaven ! what was he, and is he ? And yet, I 've lived with him, these five years, and cursed every moment of my [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ I gave up, for my hands were tied. He had my children; — whenever I resisted his will anywhere, he would talk about selling them, and he made me as submissive as he desired. O, what a life it was ! to live with my heart breaking, every day,—to keep on, on, on, loving, when [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom,—roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in a suit against a white, and it will be easy to see that such a case may occur, wherever there is a man whose passions outweigh his interests, and a slave who has manhood or principle enough to resist his will. There is, actually, nothing to protect the slave's life, but the _character_ of the master. Facts too shocking to be contemplated occasionally force their way to the public ear, and the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)