• noun:   the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

  Example: "He encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"

• noun:   the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

  Example: "The enemy offered little resistance"

• noun:   group action in opposition to those in power
• noun:   (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
• noun:   the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
• noun:   any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
• noun:   an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
• noun:   a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
• noun:   (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
• noun:   a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

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