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resistive

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The device would steadily raise the temperature by powering up those super-strong magnets, using an electric current to create resistive heating and then applying radio waves.

In the midst of this the lungs have their resistive vitality raised so as to throw off the disease.

He was very resistive to the taking of a bath, and suddenly snapped  at the attendants who cared for him.

The first thing that a man begins to lose through the inroads of age is his resistive power.

His last illness was the result of a cold, and his advanced age, eighty-seven, left him little resistive vitality.

Most people have quite enough resistive vitality to enable them to recover from the disease.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to resistive, such as: immune, impervious, insusceptible, invulnerable, proof, and protected.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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