different between resist vs gainstrive

English

Etymology

From Middle English resisten, from Old French resistre, Middle French resister, and their source, Latin resistere, from re- + sistere (“cause to stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?st/, /???z?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: re?sist

Verb

resist (third-person singular simple present resists, present participle resisting, simple past and past participle resisted)

1. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
2. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
3. (intransitive) To oppose.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, II. iii. 29:

     These cates resist me,

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• resistance
• resistless

Synonyms

• gainstay
• oppose
• withset

Antonyms

• obey
• submit

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

resist (countable and uncountable, plural resists)

1. A protective coating or covering.

Translations

Derived terms

• resist work

References

Anagrams

• Istres, Reists, Sister, reists, resits, restis, risest, sister

English

Etymology

From gain- +? strive.

Verb

gainstrive (third-person singular simple present gainstrives, present participle gainstriving, simple past gainstrived or gainstrove, past participle gainstrived or gainstriven)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose. [16th century]
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back. [16th century]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:

     For on the spoile of women he doth live, / Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre / He may them catch unable to gainstrive, / He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre, / And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.

Derived terms

• gainstriving

Related terms

• gainstrife