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