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Meaning of resile


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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"


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