About The Word Resile
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Resile
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What's The Definition Of Resile?
[v] return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed, as of elastic bodies; "The rubber tubes resile"
[v] formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" [v] spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [v] draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease" Synonyms | Synonyms for Resile: abjure | bounce | bound | forswear | rebound | recant | recoil | retract | reverberate | ricochet | spring | take a hop Related Terms | Find terms related to Resile: See Also | back down | back off | bound off | bow out | carom | chicken out | glance | jump | kick | kick back | leap | pull out | regress | renounce | repudiate | retrovert | return | revert | skip | turn back Resile In Webster's Dictionary \Re*sile"\ (r?-z?l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Resiled}
(-z?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Resiling}.] [L. resilire to leap
or spring back; pref. re- re- + salire to leap, spring. See
{Salient}.]
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. --J.
Ellis.
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