| VERB | social | resile | pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. |
|---|---|---|---|
| motion | resile, bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet | spring back | |
| communication | resile, abjure, recant, forswear, retract | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | |
| change | resile | return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed |
| Meaning | Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "The landlord cannot resile from the lease" | |
| Broader | chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out | Remove oneself from an obligation |
| Spanish | retractarse | |
| Meaning | spring back; spring away from an impact. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" | |
| Synonyms | bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet | |
| Narrower | carom | rebound after hitting |
| kick back, recoil, kick | spring back, as from a forceful thrust | |
| skip, bound off | bound off one point after another | |
| Broader | jump, leap, bound, spring | Move forward by leaps and bounds |
| Spanish | rebotar | |
| Catalan | rebotar, rebotre | |
| Adjectives | resilient | elastic |
| Nouns | resiliency | an occurrence of rebounding or springing back |
| Meaning | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | abjure, recant, forswear, retract | |
| Broader | disown, renounce, repudiate | Cast off |
| Spanish | abjurar, renunciar, retractarse, retractar | |
| Catalan | abjurar, retractar-se, retractar | |
| Meaning | Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The rubber tubes resile" | |
| Broader | revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back | Go back to a previous state |
| Adjectives | resilient | elastic |
| Nouns | resilience, 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 |
| resilience | an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | |
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