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