English English Dictionary
- withstand in English:
1. resist
I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.
resist change
Give me the strength to resist the temptation. / 2. There are always those who resist progress. / 3. You resist what can bring you peace. / 4. I'm pretty sure I can resist you.
However long it takes; we will resist the enemy and we will never give up.
Couldn't resist telling the dentist "yeh it makes me feel numb" when he asked me did I have any problems with local anaesthetic.
Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.
Even though we resist this by all means — it is a fact.
I resist being tempted to spend a lot of money on clothes.
Children usually resist their parents' tyranny, rebel against them and eventually confront them. I couldn't resist buying such a beautiful dress.
They are determined to resist pressure to change the law. / The bank strongly resisted cutting interest rates. / I can never resist the urge to laugh.
Learn the rules of rugby and you will be unable to resist it
The soldiers resisted (the enemy attacks) for two days. I can never resist temptation/chocolate/the urge to laugh. The party leader resisted demands for his resignation.
This material resists water very well. This material is highly water resistant. This is an extremely water-resistant material. This material has very good resistance to water. his material has excellent water resistance.
English word "withstand"(resist) occurs in sets:
ang synonimy2. to be strong enough not to be damaged by extreme conditions or strong force
3. To be successful in resisting
English word "withstand"(To be successful in resisting) occurs in sets:
pre ib vocab april 20134. combat
Our ancestors developed massive jaws as a result of constant combat.
There's nothing like close combat to test one's mettle.
Their leader is trying to combat climate change.
Tom died in combat.
If we want to combat a threat, we need to know where the threat comes from.
combat the stiffness
In real combat, you must not forget that hesitation is a very dangerous thing.
Combat soldiers during peaceful moments like to reminisce of their halcyon days.
His combat against terrorism was successful.
combat crime/inflation/disease
He would work closely with US allies in the Middle East to combat extremism
a fight, especially during a war: Many people died in this combat.
And apparently, some companies in the UK are offering their employees activities such as... Hunger Games-style combat days where teams must work together to 'kill' as many of the opposing team as possible.
It was a mortal combat as we killed all of our enemies. The police combats crime.
Stop maize monoculture, and reestablish multiple cropping, to combat the loss of landscape and soil diversity.
5. survive
A bookstore in that location wouldn't make enough money to survive.
Will our planet survive?
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
What? A little soup and celery is all I get? I'm not a Zen monk. I can't survive on an austerity diet like this.
He didn't waste a single minute, thinking constantly about how to survive and how to improve his condition.
To survive, the polar bear must keep its body at the right temperature and store enough energy to last between meals that could be a few days or a few months apart.
Tatoeba: Let the fittest sentence survive!
If you consider the objective of hibernation, I think it's the response of animals trying to somehow survive the winter season with its lack of food.
It's really difficult to survive in a big city like Tokyo without endebting oneself.
Many on-line companies need to have a new approach to business to survive.
By the end of this week, we will have survived longer than anyone else in a place like this
Although divorces are always very paintful, I'm sure he'll survive it.
Then I had to do some tests to see if I could survive in different situations.
To survive in a hostile environment, one must be able to improvize and be tenacious.
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