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1. Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
   "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
    
2. Move back in a roughly opposite direction after an impact
   "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
   - bounce, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
    
3. Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
   "She resiled her beliefs"
   - abjure, recant, forswear, retract
    
4. Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
   "The rubber tubes resile"

Derived forms: resiled, resiling, resiles

See also: resiliency, resilient

Type of: back down, back off, bound, bow out, chicken out, disown, jump, leap, pull out, regress, renounce, repudiate, retrovert, return, revert, spring, turn back