· pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"

Hypernym(s): chicken_out, back_off, pull_out, back_down, bow_out

· spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

Synonym(s): bounce, take_a_hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

Hypernym(s): jump, leap, bound, spring

· formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

Synonym(s): abjure, recant, forswear, retract

Hypernym(s): disown, renounce, repudiate

· return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"

Hypernym(s): revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn_back