resist (stubbornly)
1resist — verb ADVERB ▪ fiercely, firmly, resolutely, strenuously, strongly, vigorously ▪ successfully ▪ They successfully resisted pressure from their competitors to increase price …
2stubbornly — adv. Stubbornly is used with these adjectives: ↑persistent, ↑silent Stubbornly is used with these verbs: ↑cling, ↑fight, ↑insist, ↑persist, ↑refuse, ↑repeat, ↑resist, ↑stick …
3dig in one's heels — To behave stubbornly • • • Main Entry: ↑heel * * * resist stubbornly; refuse to give in he has dug in his heels and refuses to leave …
4buck — buck1 [buk] n. [ME bukke < OE bucca, male goat < IE base * bhuĝo > Ger bock, Du bok, Ir boc ] 1. pl. bucks or buck a male deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, etc.: see DOE ☆ 2. the act of bucking 3. a) …
5Battle of Toungoo — Battle of Toungoo, Mar. 24 30, 1942, was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino Japanese War. Prelude On March 8, 1942, advanced elements of the 200th Division arrived at… …
6outstand — (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ verb Etymology: out (I) + stand transitive verb 1. dialect chiefly England : to resist stubbornly : contradict 2. : to endure beyond …
7France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
8Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
9World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
