resile
/ri'zail/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To spring back or recoil: To return to an original shape or position after being stretched, compressed, or deformed, demonstrating elasticity.
- To withdraw from a commitment or position: To formally retract, renounce, or pull out from a promise, agreement, belief, or statement, often under pressure.
Usage and Examples
Verb (Physical Recoil):
- The high-quality rubber band will resile to its original length after being stretched.
- Certain materials resile more effectively than others when pressure is released.
Verb (Withdrawal from Commitment):
- After the scandal, the politician was forced to resile from his earlier campaign promises.
- Once the contract is signed, neither party can easily resile from its terms without penalty.
Advanced Usage
- Legal and Formal Contexts: The verb "resile" is often used in formal, legal, or diplomatic language to describe the act of withdrawing from an agreement or position.
- The company sought legal advice on whether it could resile from the merger agreement.
- Under intense questioning, the witness did not resile from her testimony.
Variants and Related Words
- Resilient (adj): Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions; elastic.
- She is a resilient person who overcomes every challenge.
- Resilience (n): The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness; the ability of a substance to spring back into shape.
- The resilience of the community after the disaster was remarkable.
- Resilement (n): The act of resiling; withdrawal. (This is a rare, formal noun form.)
Synonyms
- Recoil: To spring or jump back. (For the physical meaning)
- Retract: To withdraw a statement or opinion.
- Renounce: To formally declare one's abandonment of a claim, right, or belief.
- Abjure: To renounce a belief, cause, or claim solemnly or formally.
- Withdraw: To remove or take back from a place or participation.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions
- Resile from: This is the standard construction used with the verb.
- He refused to resile from his principles.
- The treaty does not allow a member state to resile from its core obligations.
Related Idioms
- To back out: To withdraw from a commitment. (This is a more common, informal equivalent for the non-physical meaning of "resile").
- He backed out of the deal at the last minute.
Verb
- return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
- The rubber tubes resile
- formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
- He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
- She abjured her beliefs
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- The rubber ball bounced
- These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
- pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
- The landlord cannot resile from the lease