Resile
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɹɪˈzaɪl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Resile is a verb meaning To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Meaning
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
More Meanings
- To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
Example Sentences
I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.
Word Forms
- resiles
- resiling
- resiled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reject, recule, recoil, recede, pull back, revulse.
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