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2. leavings, leftovers, rest, remnants, residuum; oddments, odds and ends, fragments, rummage; rubbage, waste, garbage, junk; offal, refuse, sewage; hogwash, swill, slop, Scot. lave; rejectamenta, discards, throwaways, castoffs, jettison, jetsam, flotsam; offscourings, sweepings, shavings, parings, scrapings, filings, leavings, raspings, pomace; slag, dross, scum, scoriae, sordes; detritus, debris, litter, rubble, Geol. talus; cinders, ashes, soot, carbon, smut, dirt. resign, v. 1. (usu. in reference to office or position) abdicate, renounce, give up, Law. disclaim, lay down, part with, retire from, vacate, abnegate, Chiefly Scot. demit; relinquish, let go, deliver up, hand over, transfer, turn over; surrender, submit, yield, cede, give way.
2. resign oneself to accept, give in, acquiesce, comply, accede, concur, admit, go along with; be reconciled to, tolerate, brook, abide, bear, stand, endure, stomach, bear with, put up with; grin and bear it, lie down and die, take it lying down, SI. lump it; lose hope of, despair of, give up, abandon, quit, SI. pack it in, give up the ship, throw in the towel or sponge, cry or say uncle. resignation, n. 1. abdication, resigning, renunciation, renouncing, retirement, retiring, abnegation, Archaic. demission; relinquishment, abandonment, surrender, yielding, ceding, cession; transfer, transferal, transference, handing over; repudiation, rejection, disowning, disclamation.
2. submission, acquiescence, compliance, obedience; yielding, appeasement, capitulation, surrender; submissiveness, docility, passivity, passiveness, meekness, nonresistance.
3. resignedness, reconciliation, acceptance; patience, forbearance, endurance, toleration, tolerance, sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity. resigned, adj. 1. submissive, passive, unresisting, nonresistant, yielding, docile, obedient; deferential, subservient, meek, humble, mild.
2. acquiescent, complying, compliant; accepting, tolerant, unquestioning, reconciled; patient, long-suffering, forbearing, uncomplaining, unrepining, cheerful, chin-up.
3. stoical, disciplined, composed, collected; unperturbed, unruffled; unperturbable, dispassionate, philosophical. resilience, n. 1. elasticity, springiness, flexibility, suppleness; spring, bounce, give, kick, snap, recoil, rebound; plasticity, ductility, rubberiness, reflexiveness; tensibility, tensileness, extensibility; contractability, contractility, stretchability; adaptability, malleability, adjustableness, movability, responsiveness.
2. buoyancy, lightness, carefreeness, airiness, cheerfulness; liveliness, jauntiness, light-heartedness, breeziness, perkiness. resilient, adj. 1. rebounding, recoiling, springing back; flexible, bendable, pliable, supple, springy, bouncy; tensile, stretchable, extensile, extensible; contractile, contractive; elastic, rubbery, plastic, ductile; malleable, adaptable, yielding, adjustable, responsive.
2. buoyant, irrepressible, recuperative; lively, jaunty, lighthearted, breezy, perky; light, carefree, airy, cheerful. resist, v. 1. withstand, repel, repulse, Archaic, reluct; stand fast, make a stand, stand, breast, front, brook; stand at bay, breast the current, weather, not yield an inch, Inf. hang in there; stand one's ground, hold the line against; hold out, hold up, bear up.
2. oppose, counteract, neutralize, counterwork, countermine; cancel, militate against, countervail; confront, face, encounter; rebuff, strike back, recalcitrate; beat back, drive back, siege, repress; fight, attack, assail, assault, oppugn, combat; retaliate, strike back, impugn; struggle against, contend with, contest, battle, antagonize; revolt, rebel, mutiny; overcome, defeat, overpower, stem the tide.