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  • Group action in opposition to those in power

  • The military action of resisting the enemy's advance

  • The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

  • An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

  • The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

  • (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

  • A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

  • Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

  • A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

  • (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

  • The capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

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