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Resisting vs Repressing - What's the difference?

resisting | repressing |

As verbs the difference between resisting and repressing

is that resisting is present participle of lang=en while repressing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between resisting and repressing

is that resisting is resistance while repressing is a second or subsequent pressing.

resisting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • resistance
  • * 1901 , The Insurance Times (volume 34, page 389)
  • There has been a great deal written recently regarding the honesty, or rather dishonesty of action on the part of surety companies, their technical bonds, their resistings of payments, their scalings of losses, etc.

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    repressing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A second or subsequent pressing.
  • repressings of a vinyl record