resile

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verb

1. pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
- The landlord cannot resile from the lease
• Hypernyms:
chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. 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
• Derivationally related forms:
retraction (for: retract), forswearing (for: forswear), recantation (for: recant), abjuration (for: abjure), abjurer (for: abjure)
• Hypernyms:
disown, renounce, repudiate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
3. spring back;
spring away from an impact
- The rubber ball bounced
- These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
• Syn:
bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound,
recoil, reverberate, ricochet
• Derivationally related forms:
ricochet (for: ricochet), recoil (for: recoil), rebound (for: rebound), bound (for: bound), spring (for: spring), resilient, resiliency, bounce (for: bounce)
• Hypernyms:
jump, leap, bound, spring
• Hyponyms:
kick back, recoil, kick, skip, bound off, carom
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
4. return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
- The rubber tubes resile
• Derivationally related forms:
resilient, resiliency, resilience
• Hypernyms:
revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  abjure, recant, forswear, retract, bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet