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resile (iou)



resile verb intrans. E16.
[French resilir or Latin resilire leap back, recoil, formed as RE- + salire leap. In sense 1 = medieval Latin resilire (ab) repudiate.]
Draw back from an agreement, contract, etc.; retract. E16.
Financial Times The club had not resiled from its agreement.
Draw back or withdraw from a course of action etc. M17.
Recoil or retreat from something with aversion. L17.
D. Hume I resiled from their excessive civilities.
(Of a material thing) recoil or rebound after contact; (of something stretched or compressed) resume an original position, size, shape etc.; spring back. E18.
Turn back from a point reached; return to one's original position. rare. L19.