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resile

English

  1. 🔊 return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
    “The rubber tubes resile”
  2. 🔊 pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
    “The landlord cannot resile from the lease”
  3. 🔊 spring back
    “The rubber ball bounced”
  4. 🔊 formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
    “He retracted his earlier statements about his religion”

Similar words

abjure recant forswear retract bounce take a hop spring bound rebound recoil reverberate ricochet