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:

verb	chicken 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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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.