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What is the verb for resilient?

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resile
  1. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
  2. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “You might not like me for that, but I will not resile from that as I would be failing you as the premier of this state if I ignored those issues.”
      “I do not resile from being constrained to point out injustices suffered by our clients as it is the job of any lawyer to do so.”
      “It brought an application for an order declaring unlawful and invalid the decision to resile from the agreement.”
resilence
  1. (transitive) To subject to gene silencing again.
resilences
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of resilence
resiles
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of resile
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It resiles from recent thinking, however, in that it places health at the centre of this integration.”
      “He resiles to some extent from so dogmatic an assertion in his addenda and corrigenda, pp.”
resilenced
  1. simple past tense and past participle of resilence
resiled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of resile
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He did not determine the matter, and yet in this case he seems to have resiled somewhat from that position.”
      “In the instant case both experts resiled from more extreme positions.”
resilencing
  1. present participle of resilence
resiling
  1. present participle of resile
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This has meant resiling from positions that might alienate persuadable interests.”
      “So I repeat, I'm not resiling from the position I took in 1980, but I think I would take a different view today.”
      “It's been made clear many times and there is no question of Labour resiling from that position or retreating from it.”
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