RESILE meaning: Withdraw from a position, agreement

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resile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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resile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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resile: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (resile)

▸ verb: To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
▸ verb: To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

Similar:

recule, recoil, recede, pull back, revulse, backstep, resiliate, retract, recoyle, receed, more...

Opposite:

yield, succumb, surrender, submit, acquiesce

Types:

leap, spring, bounce, rebound, ricochet, skip, hop, bob, more...

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