Dictionary

resile en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹiˈzaɪl/ (US)
• /ɹɪˈzaɪl/ (UK)
• /ɹəˈzaɪl/ (US)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
   • 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. 2007, David Pollard et al., Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials, →ISBN, page 594:
   • I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
2. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

Forms

Deriveds

resilement

Relateds

resilience · result · resilient · resiliency

Translations (22)

hu visszalép (to start back; recoil) · sv dra sig ur (to start back; recoil) · sv rekylera (to spring back; rebound) · fi vetäytyä (to start back; recoil) · pl powrócić (to spring back; rebound) · es retroceder (to start back; recoil) · sv rygga tillbaka (to start back; recoil) · sv studsa tillbaka (to spring back; rebound) · cs vrátit se (to spring back; rebound) · pl cofać się (to start back; recoil) · hu eláll (to start back; recoil) · pl powracać (to spring back; rebound) · pl wycofywać się (to start back; recoil) · pl odbijać się (to spring back; rebound) · bg отскачам (to spring back; rebound) · hu meghátrál (to start back; recoil) · pl wycofać się (to start back; recoil) · pl odbić się (to spring back; rebound) · pl cofnąć się (to start back; recoil) · it retrocedere (to spring back; rebound) · fi palautua (to spring back; rebound) · hu visszapattan (to spring back; rebound)