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"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) kick back, recoil, kick (spring back, as from a forceful thrust) "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
• S: (v) skip, bound off (bound off one point after another)
• S: (v) carom (rebound after hitting) "The car caromed off several lampposts"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
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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
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) resile (return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed) "The rubber tubes resile"