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Resides vs Resiles - What's the difference?

resides | resiles |

As verbs the difference between resides and resiles

is that resides is while resiles is (resile).

resides

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reside)
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    reside

    English

    Verb

    (resid)
  • To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
  • To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
  • To sink; to settle, as sediment.
  • See also

    * abide * dwell * live * stay

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    resiles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (resile)

  • resile

    English

    Verb

  • To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2007 , author=David Pollard et al. , title=Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials , isbn=019928637X , page=594 , passage=If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile' from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority ' resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.}}
  • To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
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