| buck2 |
(informal) to oppose or resist stubbornly or with determination. [1/7 definitions] |
| cutwater |
the upstream face of a bridge pier, designed to resist moving water or ice. [1/2 definitions] |
| defy |
to resist or challenge openly; act against the wishes or decrees of. [1/3 definitions] |
| fend |
to provide defense; resist. [1/3 definitions] |
| fiber |
in diet, certain plant carbohydrates that resist digestion but speed the digestion of other foods and ease intestinal evacuation. [1/5 definitions] |
| fight |
the capacity to resist or struggle. [1/9 definitions] |
| fighter |
one who has the will or determination to struggle or resist. [1/3 definitions] |
| geostatic |
of a building, bridge, or other construction, able to resist such pressure. [1/2 definitions] |
| irresistible |
impossible to withstand or resist. |
| mothproof |
to prepare (a material) to resist infestation by or damage caused by moth larvae. [1/2 definitions] |
| nonresistant |
one who does not resist, esp. one who refuses to use violence or force either in self-defense or in opposition to arbitrary or illegal authority. [1/2 definitions] |
| oppose |
to think, act, or be against; resist or obstruct. [1/3 definitions] |
| outface |
to confront (danger or the like) bravely; defy or resist. [1/2 definitions] |
| photolithography |
a technique or process of offset printing in which an image is photographically transferred onto a metal or paper sheet that is then developed and specially treated to resist ink on all but the transferred image. |
| pressurize |
to make in such a way as to resist outside pressure. [1/2 definitions] |
| prestressed concrete |
concrete reinforced with steel cables, wires, or the like, which have been embedded in it under tension and thus actively resist loads. |
| -proof |
able to resist or withstand, or protected from or against, (something specified). [1/2 definitions] |
| repel |
to resist integration or absorption. [1/7 definitions] |
| repress |
to resist conscious awareness of. [1/3 definitions] |
| resistless |
unresisting; powerless to resist. [1/2 definitions] |
| right |
(cap.) those who tend toward conservative political views and resist changes to existing economic or social conditions (usu. prec. by "the"). [1/28 definitions] |