Resists is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESISTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• RESIST, to strive against, oppose
• withstand the action or effect of
• try to prevent by action or argument
• refrain from doing (something tempting or unwise)
• struggle or fight back when attacked
NOUN:
• a resistant substance applied as a coating to protect a surface during a process, for example to prevent dye or glaze adhering

Words related to RESISTS

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How to use RESISTS in a sentence

• If He resists the proud, it is in fatherly love, because it is bad for them to be proud.
• If the citizen resists he is carried off, and told that on account of his resistance he will have the honour of being put at the head of his battalion at the first engagement.
• The total disparity of mind and matter resists all efforts to reduce them to one.
• Since hope always resists them, they are for this reason rarely fatal.
• Matter under certain circumstances resists, and under certain other circumstances attracts.
• Then the lower nature resists and becomes clamorous.
• As for France, the cause of the war is the instinct of self-preservation, that resists an invading host.
• What kind of timber resists decay longest under ground? 103.
• But the blessed Lord Jesus resists the tempter, and continually seeks to lead men into a higher, nobler and heavenly life.
• Thus Democracy, which resists inequality, constantly appeals to Nature.
• For the existence of every government is threatened by prophets and agitators, and in self-defence it resists innovation.
• Whoever resists this system will be destroyed by competition.
• Great efforts are being made to destroy the reciprocal sentiments of union and confidence, to which we owe it that Paris still resists, after 100 days of siege.
• We see then that this class of means, the wearing out of the enemy, includes the great number of cases in which the weaker resists the stronger.
• The singer cannot lift and expand without filling the lungs naturally and automatically, unless he purposely resists the breath.
• Know, then, that it is called a stone, not because it is like a stone, but only because, by virtue of its fixed nature, it resists the action of fire as successfully as any stone.
• Language, being social, resists a virgin egotism and forbids it to express itself publicly, no matter how well grounded it may be in transcendental logic and in animal instinct.
• Hence, in speaking of a fast color, it becomes necessary to refer specially to the particular influences which it resists before the term acquires a definite meaning.
• It resists more effectually than the cereals the frosts of the north.
• Feeling the pain of the sharp stake the crocodile becomes so docile that it neither resists nor attacks, nor dares move, for the slightest movement causes it pain.
• The body being once habituated to certain movements, conditions, foods or drinks, within reasonable limits, derives pleasure therefrom and resists change.
• A man may by mere natural conscience know something of what temptation is, but only he understands its strength who resists it.

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