RESILE
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)
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
Meaning:
Spring back; spring away from an impact
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
take a hop; ricochet; rebound; bounce; resile; recoil; spring; bound; reverberate
Context examples:
The rubber ball bounced / 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; glance (rebound after hitting)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
abjure; forswear; recant; retract; resile
Context examples:
He retracted his earlier statements about his religion / She abjured her beliefs
Hypernyms (to "resile" is one way to...):
renounce; repudiate (cast off or disown)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
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
