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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
resile v 1: pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease" 2: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet] 3: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" [syn: abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile] 4: return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile" | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
resile \re*sile"\ (r[-e]*z[imac]l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. resiled (-z[imac]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. [1913 Webster] resilience | ||
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