verb
- Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc..
- usage: "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
- Spring back; spring away from an impact.
- usage: "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- synonyms: bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
- Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
- usage: "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed.
- usage: "The rubber tubes resile"
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