Resist vs Repudiate - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between resist and repudiate

is that resist is to oppose while repudiate is to be repudiated.

As verbs the difference between resist and repudiate

is that resist is to attempt to counter the actions or effects of while repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

As a noun resist

is a protective coating or covering oxford english dictionary , 2nd ed, 1989.

resist

English

Verb

(en verb)

To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

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To withstand the actions of.

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To oppose.

(obsolete) To be distasteful to.

* 1608 , , II. iii. 29:

These cates resist me,

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

Derived terms

* resistance

Synonyms

* (l) * (l) * (l)

Antonyms

* obey * submit

Derived terms

* irresistible * irresistibly * resistance * resistant * resistantly * resistible * resistibly * resistive * resistively * resistless * resistlessly * resistor

Noun

(en noun)

A protective coating or covering. Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

References

repudiate

English

Verb

To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).

To be repudiated.

Quotations

: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it" : "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America." 1848': '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, '''repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, '' , Chapter XXXIV. "The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating ." , Andrew Marvell . "The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --

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