Crossword-Solution: RESISTED 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Resisted imp. & p. p. of Resist

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RESISTED anagram DRESSTIE, EDITRESS, SISTERED, STERIDES

We have 15 clues for the answer “RESISTED”

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Didn't fall in line 1 answer
Exercised self-control 1 answer
Refused submission. 1 answer
Stood up to aggression. 1 answer
Balked at 2 answers
Didn't go along 2 answers
Argued against 2 answers
Put up a struggle 2 answers
Refused to yield 2 answers
Stood firm 3 answers
Fought off 3 answers
Stood up to 4 answers
Withstood 7 answers
Put up a fight 7 answers
Opposed 82 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RESISTED (5)

Covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half so much.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Few men could have resisted the arch yet dignified entreaty of the beautiful face, thrown a little back and sideways in the well-known attitude that expresses more than the words it accompanies, and which seems to have been designed for these special occasions.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Walking to and fro, with those lonely footsteps, in the little world with which she was outwardly connected, it now and then appeared to Hester—if altogether fancy, it was nevertheless too potent to be resisted—she felt or fancied, then, that the scarlet letter had endowed her with a new sense.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Her very limbs seemed to ache with longing for the love of a man who had spurned her, who had resisted her tenderness, remained cold to her appeals, and had not responded to the glow of passion, which had caused her to feel and hope that those happy olden days in Paris were not all dead and forgotten.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with RESISTED (3)

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look…
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
I resisted the urge to hurl my plate at him. “Of course not, Ian. It’s just that normally at this hour, Bones and I are fucking like rabbits, so I get twitchy when I have to wait for him to climb aboard.
Jeaniene Frost At Grave's End
She accepted it uncertainly. “This will help?” Without waiting for an answer, with that unsettling trust of hers, she popped open the lid and dug in her finger, smearing the slick substance on and around her mouth. Going outside of the lines, as he deduced she did with most everything in her life. When she was done, she looked absolutely ridiculous. Caine barely resisted smiling at her. “It will help immensely.
V.S. Carnes
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, WSJ.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).