Resile (Verb)
Meaning 1
Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- After signing the contract, she tried to resile from the deal, but it was too late to back out.
- The terms stated in the document are binding, the supplier cannot simply resile from them.
- In a surprising turn of events, the company attempted to resile from their initial statement.
- They had thought it would be easy to resile from the partnership, but the process turned out to be more complicated than expected.
- By virtue of estoppel, the plaintiff is estopped from attempting to resile from their agreement.
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Meaning 2
Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The elastic band resiles when it is no longer being pulled.
- The foam cushion resiles slowly after being squashed.
- After being compressed, the coil spring resiles to its original shape.
- The stretched plastic resiles, returning to its normal dimensions.
- The resile of the trampoline mat is a key factor in its safety and performance.
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Meaning 3
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The politician was forced to resile from her previous stance on immigration after facing severe backlash from her colleagues and the public.
- Under the intense scrutiny of the media, the celebrity resiled from the inflammatory comments he made about his rival.
- The company's CEO was made to resile from the statement he released earlier in the day that was seen as insensitive to the affected community.
- The scholar was criticized for resiling from her research findings after receiving funding from a major oil company.
- The defendant's previous confession was deemed invalid after he resiled from it during the trial, claiming it was coerced by the police.
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Meaning 4
Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- When dropped from the height, the elastic toy began to resile, returning to nearly its original shape.
- The dropped trampoline resiled quickly, rebounding back into its original form after each impact.
- After being compressed by the collision, the spring began to resile back to its original state.
- The tennis ball resiled off the hard surface, bouncing away with considerable speed.
- The elastic band started to resile as soon as it was released from the stretched position.