RESILE

Definition:

1. [verb] draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
   
   
2. [verb] spring back; spring away from an impact; "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
   
   
3. [verb] formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
   Synonyms: abjure, recant, forswear, retract
   
   
4. [verb] return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"
   
   

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Related Words:

• kick back, recoil, kick
• skip, bound off
• carom, glance

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