resist

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refuse to comply
elude, especially in a baffling way
express opposition through action or words
withstand the force of something
stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
To stand against
To strive against
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction
To be distasteful to
To make opposition
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. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes

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