RESILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resile mean? 

• RESILE (verb)
  The verb RESILE has 4 senses:

1. pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.

2. spring back; spring away from an impact

3. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

4. return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed

  Familiarity information: RESILE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESILE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The landlord cannot resile from the lease

Hypernyms (to "resile" is one way to...):

back down; back off; bow out; chicken out; pull out (remove oneself from an obligation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spring back; spring away from an impact

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bounce; bound; rebound; recoil; resile; reverberate; ricochet; spring; take a hop

Context example:

These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide

Hypernyms (to "resile" is one way to...):

bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resile"):

kick; kick back; recoil (spring back, as from a forceful thrust)

bound off; skip (bound off one point after another)

carom (rebound after hitting)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

resilient (elastic; rebounds readily)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

abjure; forswear; recant; resile; retract

Context example:

She abjured her beliefs

Hypernyms (to "resile" is one way to...):

disown; renounce; repudiate (cast off)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The rubber tubes resile

Hypernyms (to "resile" is one way to...):

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

resilience (the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit)

resilience (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

resiliency (the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit)

resilient (elastic; rebounds readily)