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resile

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
resile /rɪˈzʌɪl/

▶verb formal abandon a position or a course of action.

– origin C16: from obs. Fr. resilir or L. resilire ‘to recoil’.

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