resile

verb
/ɹɪˈzaɪl/UK/ɹəˈzaɪl/US

Etymology

From Middle French resiler (compare French résilier), from Latin resiliō (“spring back”), from re- (“back”) + saliō (“to jump”).

  1. derived from resiliō — “spring back
  2. derived from resiler

Definitions

  1. To start back

    To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

    • I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
  2. To spring back

    To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

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Derived

resilement

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for resile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA