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resiliating

resiliating is the present participle and gerund of resiliate.

Meaning of resiliate

Verb (1)

resiliate (third-person singular simple present resiliates, present participle resiliating, simple past and past participle resiliated)

  1. (Canada) To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.
    • A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...].1989, Esten Kenneth Williams, F. W. Rhodes, Christopher Bentley, John McNair, Mavis Butkus, Marc Casavant, Canadian law of landlord and tenant

Verb (2)

resiliate (third-person singular simple present resiliates, present participle resiliating, simple past and past participle resiliated)

  1. (literary, uncommon) To rebound; to bounce back.
    • The Rays, instead of being transmitted into the Air through the Glass, find the Passage shut by a Surface smooth enough to make them resiliate easily under an Angle equal to that of their Fall.1763, Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display'd, page 296
  2. (literary, uncommon) To reecho, to support or amplify through similar exposition.
    • And if the text itself virtually announces that something was suppressed then it is the pious reader's/interpreter's obligation to resiliate as much as is possible about the suppression.2006, John W. McGinley, About the King's Choice to Build His Palace Right on Top of the Dunghill, →ISBN, page 459
  3. (nonstandard, uncommon) To make or become resilient.
    • The man is a miracle of resiliency. Long may he resiliate (?),2014, Frederick Spencer Kiley, Letters from Uncle Fred, →ISBN, page 114

Questions about resiliating

What is resiliating the present participle and gerund of?
Resiliating is the present participle and gerund of resiliate.

Words near resiliating in the dictionary

  1. resilia
  2. resiliant
  3. resiliate
  4. resiliated
  5. resiliates
  6. resiliating
  7. resiliation
  8. resiliations
  9. resilience
  10. resiliences
  11. resiliencies

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