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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
resile
1. pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. - The landlord cannot resile from the lease • Hypernyms: chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP 2. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure - He retracted his earlier statements about his religion - She abjured her beliefs • Syn: abjure, recant, forswear, retract • Derivationally related forms: retraction (for: retract), forswearing (for: forswear), recantation (for: recant), abjuration (for: abjure), abjurer (for: abjure) • Hypernyms: disown, renounce, repudiate • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s something 3. spring back; spring away from an impact - The rubber ball bounced - These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide • Syn: bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet • Derivationally related forms: ricochet (for: ricochet), recoil (for: recoil), rebound (for: rebound), bound (for: bound), spring (for: spring), resilient, resiliency, bounce (for: bounce) • Hypernyms: jump, leap, bound, spring • Hyponyms: kick back, recoil, kick, skip, bound off, carom • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Something is ----ing PP 4. return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed - The rubber tubes resile • Derivationally related forms: resilient, resiliency, resilience • Hypernyms: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back • Verb Frames: - Something ----s
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