Verb

• S: (v) resile (pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.) "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
• S: (v) 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"
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• S: (v) 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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) disown, renounce, repudiate (cast off) "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
• S: (v) apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate (abandon one's beliefs or allegiances)
• S: (v) 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"
• S: (v) swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw (take back what one has said) "He swallowed his words"
• S: (v) refute, rebut (overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof) "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
• S: (v) deny (refuse to accept or believe) "He denied his fatal illness"
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• S: (v) resile (return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed) "The rubber tubes resile"