Main entry: resile
Definition: return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
Usage: The rubber tubes resile
Main entry: recant, resile, retract, abjure, forswear
Definition: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Usage: He retracted his earlier statements about his religion; She abjured her beliefs
Main entry: spring, bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop
Definition: spring back; spring away from an impact
Usage: The rubber ball bounced; These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Main entry: resile
Definition: pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
Usage: The landlord cannot resile from the lease