Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)defy, resist, refuseelude, especially in a baffling way“This behavior defies explanation” (v)protest, resist, dissentexpress opposition through action or words“dissent to the laws of the country” (v)resist, stand, fendwithstand the force of something“The trees resisted her”,
“stand the test of time”,
“The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow” (v)resist, reject, refuseresist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ“His body rejected the liver of the donor”