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resile verb [ rɪˈzʌɪl ]

• abandon a position or a course of action.
• "can he resile from the agreement?"
Origin: early 16th century: from obsolete French resilir or Latin resilire ‘to recoil’, from re- ‘back’ + salire ‘to jump’.

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