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Meaning of "unresisting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNRESISTING

unresisting  [ˌunrɪˈzɪstɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNRESISTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unresisting is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNRESISTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unresisting in the English dictionary

The definition of unresisting in the dictionary is not fighting against something or someone; yielding.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNRESISTING


arm-twisting
ˈɑːmˌtwɪstɪŋ
basting
ˈbeɪstɪŋ
blacklisting
ˈblækˌlɪstɪŋ
demisting
diːˈmɪstɪŋ
existing
ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ
foul-tasting
ˌfaʊlˈteɪstɪŋ
harvesting
ˈhɑːvɪstɪŋ
interesting
ˈɪntrɪstɪŋ
listing
ˈlɪstɪŋ
misting
ˈmɪstɪŋ
pasting
ˈpeɪstɪŋ
tasting
ˈteɪstɪŋ
time-wasting
ˈtaɪmˌweɪstɪŋ
twisting
ˈtwɪstɪŋ
unassisting
ˌʌnəˈsɪstɪŋ
unhasting
ʌnˈheɪstɪŋ
uninteresting
ʌnˈɪntrɪstɪŋ
unsisting
ʌnˈsɪstɪŋ
waisting
ˈweɪstɪŋ
wasting
ˈweɪstɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNRESISTING

unresented
unresentful
unresenting
unreserve
unreserved
unreservedly
unreservedness
unresistant
unresisted
unresistible
unresistingly
unresolvable
unresolved
unresolvedness
unrespectable
unrespected
unrespective
unrespited
unresponsive
unresponsively

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNRESISTING

accounting
blasting
boasting
broadcasting
bursting
casting
contrasting
costing
disgusting
everlasting
fasting
frosting
lasting
long-lasting
nesting
posting
pre-existing
resting
sting
testing
trusting

Synonyms and antonyms of unresisting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unresisting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNRESISTING

Find out the translation of unresisting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unresisting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unresisting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反抗的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin resistencia
570 millions of speakers

English

unresisting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unresisting
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unresisting
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несопротивляющегося
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unresisting
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপ্রতিরোধী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans résistance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak menentu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

widerstandslos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

従順な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unresisting
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unresisting
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unresisting
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவிர்க்க இயலாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रद्द करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dirençsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senza opporre resistenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unresisting
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неопірного
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

opunea rezistență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άνευ αντιρρήσεως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geen weerstand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motståndslösa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unresisting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unresisting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNRESISTING»

The term «unresisting» is normally little used and occupies the 114.576 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNRESISTING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unresisting

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNRESISTING»

Discover the use of unresisting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unresisting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lusitania case
II. English Orders to Fight Submarines Liners Told to Ram U-Boats. Takes Them from Class of "Unarmed and Unresisting Craft," Says Writer. Editor Post: It seems to the writer that classing the Lusitania as an unarmed and unresisting merchant  ...
‎1915
2
Naval Institute Proceedings
The capture of the Scotch and the bombardment of the English ports, described in our issue of the 31st ult., has again opened up the question whether, in time of war, an unfortified, unresisting city may be bombarded. As the views expressed ...
‎1889
3
Naval Architecture
simplify the problem by assuming that the oscillations take place in a quiet unresisting medium ; afterward the effects of resistance and of waves, and the interdependence of the several kinds of oscillation, will receive attention. Rolling in an ...
Cecil Hobart Peabody, 1911
4
A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
Receiving impressions from external agents; unresisting; not opposing; suffering; not acting. Passive verb, in Grammar, that form of the verb which implies passion, or the result of the action of some agent, as ' / am sick.' Passive obedience ...
John Craig, 1854
5
The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory
. . This is the first book to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. Kendrick Oliver argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled.
Kendrick Oliver, 2006
6
Shakspeare's himself again; or the language of the poet asserted
How now ? what noise ? that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes. That spirit's possest with haste, That mounds the unresisting postern with these strokes. The line is irregular, and the unresisting ...
Andrew Becket, 1815
7
The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects
Then with a yell of frantic pleasure, he leaped toward his unresisting victim" (8x9). Thus in order to be accepted as chief of the Delawares, that "nation of women" ( 749), Uncas must be an "unresisting victim" of assault, forcibly stripped and ...
Renée L. Bergland, 2000
8
Shakspeare's Himself Again: Or, The Language of the Poet ...
How now ? what noise ? that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes. That spirit's possest with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes. The line is irregular, and the unresisting ...
Andrew Becket, 1815
9
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
Receiving impressions from external agents; unresisting; not opposing; suffering; not acting. Passine verb, in Grammar, that form of the verb which implies passion, or the result of the action of some agent, as * / am sick.' Passive obedience ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1849
10
Measure for measure. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. ...
Plow now ? what noise ? that spirit's possest with haste, (6) That wounds th' unresisting postern with these strokes. [Provost returns. Prow. There he must stay , until the officer Arise to let him in ; he is call'd up. Duke. Have you no countermand ...
William Shakespeare, 1766

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNRESISTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unresisting is used in the context of the following news items.
1
From the archive, 3 August 1934: The death of President Hindenburg
The Republic was handed over, unresisting, to a doom so terrible the whole civilised world stands aghast and horrified. Hindenburg, the soldier of old Prussia ... «The Guardian, Aug 15»
2
Illinois Police Scream “Stop Resisting” and Tase Unresisting Man on …
And with that, a Metra police officer tasered 20-year-old Josh Hutchinson on Sunday night, June 21. It started after a train conductor called police about young ... «PINAC News, Jun 15»
3
WATCH: Virginia cop uses pepper-spray, Taser on unresisting black …
Saying he did nothing wrong, a Virginia police officer resigned from the Fredricksburg Police Department after body-cam video showed him using his Taser, and ... «Raw Story, May 15»
4
The Five Roles That Defined Ava Gardner's Career
As an unresisting victim is murdered, an investigator (Edmond O'Brien) discovers a link between Kitty Collins and the deceased. The New York Times' Bosley ... «Newsmax, May 15»
5
The staying power of 'Selma'
The tactic of nonviolence has been sanctified by hagiography, a sort of secular parallel to the unresisting suffering of Jesus and the saints. “Selma” presents it as ... «Crux: Covering all things Catholic, May 15»
6
Attorney Claims “Super-Aggressive” Santa Monica Officers Roughed …
... is disputing the Police Department's version of what happened, claiming police peppered-sprayed and needlessly used force to subdue his unresisting client. «The Lookout News, Apr 15»
7
Police Murder by Van Ride
In the Baltimore case, a lawyer hired by Gray's family says that though he was dragged, unresisting, into the van at the time police picked him up, and was yelling ... «CounterPunch, Apr 15»
8
Happy Good Friday 2015 Quotes Prayers Poems and Whatsapp …
“The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever ... «Lauderdale Daily News, Apr 15»
9
The Senate and media make war on Mindanao
The Merriam Webster definition as cited on page 57 of the Senate report is, “the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human ... «Rappler, Mar 15»
10
Massacre or misencounter? #SAF44 debate goes on
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the term as "the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances ... «CNN, Mar 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Unresisting [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/unresisting>. May 2024 ».
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