Clues for the word "RESIST"
We've had 93 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 185 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 20, 2025.
Definition of resist
- v. t. - To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
- v. t. - To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
- v. t. - To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
- v. t. - To be distasteful to.
- v. i. - To make opposition.
- n. - 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.
Referring Clues
- Put up a fight
- Stand up to
- "I couldn't ___!"
- Stand firm against
- Withstand the lure of
- Just say no
- Fight back
- Balk at
- Fight temptation
- Put up a fuss
- Stand fast against
- Stand up to somebody
- Don't go quietly
- Fend off
- Buck
- Make a stand
- Balk at, as a pat-down?
- Oppose
- Withstand
- Act in opposition to
- Stave off
- Face down temptation
- Fight against
- Hardly comply
- Go kicking and screaming
- Put up a squawk
- Be part of the opposition
- Not succumb to
- Spurn
- Refuse to comply
- Put up a struggle
- Beat back
- "___, insist, persist, enlist" (Hillary slogan)
- Not yield to
- Defy
- Sister prepared for combat
- Is getting in support to put up a fight
- Don't go along with errant sister
- What married rockers have to do on road
- Rush "I can learn to ___ anything but temptation"
- Sister (anag)
- Must do it to on-road temptation
- Hold out
- Fight exists amid calm
- Combat is interrupting inactivity
- Don't give in to ugly sister
- Be unwilling to take time off to tour the island
- Forbear to upset one's sister
- One's getting in support to carry on the fight
- Stand up to the others, securing lives
- Is among those left to fight
- Oppose one's misguided sister
- Oppose the resettlement of one's sister
- Is put in the stand to fight against
- Among other things is "Don't comply"
- Oppose the freeing of one's sister?
- Defend against South, in another test for learner
- Oppose terrorists invading others
- Forgo sleep when touring island
- To stand up to rest is unusual
- Stand up to kilos, metres etc, interfering with holiday
- Is getting in support to carry on the fight
- Fight for another chance at exam around start of September
- Check; withstand
- Fight is eclipsed by all others
- Fight off weird sister
- Selection of wares is taken to counter
- Refuse to upset sister
- Oppose the others crossing island
- Check if one's popped in to lie down
- Oppose drunken sister
- Endure sister, drunk
- Defy drunken sister
- Stand up to run over development of sites
- Struggle against Daesh taken on by others
- Weather is embraced by spider, perhaps?
- Withstand, as temptation
- Defy revolting sister
- Support, when one's introduced, or oppose
- Don't succumb to
- Is in the balance when you fight
- Fight against, as temptation
- Oppose? Yes, among other things
- Retaining one's balance, don't give in to
- Oppose one's eccentric sister
- Protester's cry
- Stand against
- Fight against the sleep one's engulfed by
- Hold out against
- Support is coming through. Don't give in
- Push back against
- Oppose the freeing of one's sister?
- Push back, in a way
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 13, 2024
- USA Today - November 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 20, 2024
- LA Times - June 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 31, 2024
- LA Times - January 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 13, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2023
- USA Today - November 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 29, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 04, 2023
- And in 155 more crossword puzzles...