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resile   (TTS Sound)

The verb resile has 4 senses

• resile -- (pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease")


• bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet -- (spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide")


• abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile -- (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs")


• resile -- (return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile")