Hyphenation of resile

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word resile? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

re-sile

Definitions of resile:

1.
Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
The landlord cannot resile from the lease
2.
Spring back
Spring away from an impact The rubber ball bounced These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
3.
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
He retracted his earlier statements about his religion She abjured her beliefs
4.
Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
The rubber tubes resile

Synonyms of resile:

verbchicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out
verb bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, jump, leap, bound, spring
verb abjure, recant, forswear, retract, renounce, repudiate
verb revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back

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