Difference between Refuses and Resist

REFUSES vs RESIST: NOUN

A substance that can cover and protect a surface, as from corrosion.
Specifically, in calico-printing, a sort of paste applied to a fabric to prevent color or mordant from fixing on those parts not intended to be colored, either by acting mechanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers. Also called resist-paste, resistant, and reserve.
A stopping-out; also, the material used for stopping out.
A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
Something that resists or prevents a certain action
Any composition applied to a surface to protect it from chemical action, as to enable it to resist the corrosion of acids, etc.

To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
To be distasteful to.

To withstand; oppose passively or actively; antagonize; act against; exert physical or moral force in opposition to.
To be disagreeable or distasteful to; offend.
Synonyms Withstand, etc. See oppose.
To make opposition; act in opposition.

Spurns, Rejects, Fails, Refusal, Turn away, Food waste, Pass up, Turn down, Decline, Scraps, Resist, Garbage, Defy, Deny, Reject

Counteract, Thwart, Reject, Repel, Jib, Dissent, Hold out, Protest, Stand firm, Balk, Stand, Refuse, Baulk, Withstand, Defy

Rejecting, Rejected, Not, Denies, Shuns, Refusal, Turn away, Turn down, Decline, Scraps, Resist, Garbage, Defy, Deny, Reject

Prevent, Confront, Deny, Avoid, Counteract, Thwart, Reject, Repel, Jib, Dissent, Protest, Stand firm, Stand, Refuse, Defy

Witness must state why he refuses to testify.
She refuses to talk with Daughter on phone.
Comcast rep Josh refuses to activate the modem.
Stephan refuses these unwarranted displays of racial solidarity.
He then jumps up and refuses to continue.
Pursuing legal actions when client refuses to pay.
Mexico refuses to recognize the Annexation of Texas.
Refuses to identify himself or herself upon request.
If she now refuses to kill Bruno, can we say that she has made themorally correct decision simply because she refuses to kill?
What happens if the records custodian refuses to release public documents or refuses to allow a citizen to review public documents?

These songs gave progressives the strength to resist.
This guard will resist corrosion even if scratched.
Nor couldhe resist another opportunity to close philosophically.
And the futility of trying to resist either.
Judges are likely to resist surrendering their discretion.
Flash Freeze because in most cases the same enemies that resist the freeze will also resist the slow from Absolute Zero.
Nor is the fact that the victim does not resist gynecological examinations probative of whether she could resist if she wanted to do so.
That she could have done more to resist, and therefore did not resist to the utmost, was beside the point.
They expect others to resist as well, because they themselves were inclined to resist.
Used to the world of illusion in the cave, the prisoners at first resist enlightenment, as students resist education.