Word Meanings - WITHSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that,

Additional info about word: WITHSTAND

To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast. The little tyrant of his fields withstood. Gray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WITHSTAND)

• Countervail
• Counteract
• pose
• withstand
• Encounter
• Meet
• confront
• face
• attack
• assault
• combat
• engagement
• Oppose
• Withstand
• resist
• mutch
• obstruct
• oppugn
• bar
• hinder
• contravene
• check
• thwart
• Resist
• oppose
• rebuff
• stem

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WITHSTAND)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet

Related words: (words related to WITHSTAND)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.