If you resist something such as a change, you refuse to accept it and try to prevent it. The Chancellor warned employers to resist demands for high pay increases. [VERB noun/verb-ing] They resisted our attempts to modernize the distribution of books. [VERB noun] If you resist someone or resist an attack by them, you fight back against them. More @Wikipedia
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