Aid and Resists

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Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Resists is an antonym for aid.

Nearby Words: aids, aided, aide, aiding, aider

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Aid is an antonym for resists in withstand topic.

One of the recurring mafia characters is Johnny Tightlips, who denies pretty much everything; at one point he's shot and even resists his fellow mafioso's attempt to get him medical aid (which may have been inspired by Frank Gusenberg).

Source: Implausible Deniability
However, after he's "mastered" her, Tess constantly shows no interest in anything further to do with him, and handily resists his efforts to keep her under his thumb by repeatedly choosing poverty and independence over accepting his strings-attached financial aid.

Source: Literature / Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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