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RESILE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
Example:
The rubber tubes resile
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Example:
She abjured her beliefs
Synonyms:
abjure; forswear; recant; resile; retract
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "resile" is one way to...):
disown; renounce; repudiate (cast off)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Spring back; spring away from an impact
Example:
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Synonyms:
bounce; bound; rebound; recoil; resile; reverberate; ricochet; spring; take a hop
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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 4
Meaning:
Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
Example:
The landlord cannot resile from the lease
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
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
