- resile - draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
--1 is one way to chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
- bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet - spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
--2 is one way to jump, leap, bound, spring
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun resiliency1
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
--3 is one way to renounce, repudiate
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
- resile - return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"
--4 is one way to revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun resiliency2, noun resilience2, noun resilience1
Something ----s
- bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet - spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"