Synonyms for resile
- backfire
- balk
- blanch
- blink
- cringe
- demur
- flinch
- hesitate
- reel
- shudder
- tremble
- turn away
- waver
- wince
- blench
- carom
- dodge
- duck
- falter
- jerk
- kick
- quail
- quake
- react
- rebound
- shake
- shirk
- shrink
- spring
- start
- stick
- stickle
- swerve
- withdraw
- draw back
- pull back
- shy away
- step back
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Resile′ment; Resil′ience, Resil′iency, act of springing back or rebounding.
WORD ORIGIN
1520s, "draw back," from obsolete French resiler "withdraw from an agreement," or directly from Latin resilire "to jump back" (see resilience). Meaning "spring back, start back, recoil" (of material things) from 1708. Related: Resiled; resiling.
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verbshrink awayRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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