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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
resile is a verb meaning "pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.". It carries 4 recorded senses.
pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
“The landlord cannot resile from the lease”
spring back; spring away from an impact
“The rubber ball bounced”
“These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide”
return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
“The rubber tubes resile”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for resile come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.