From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
resile
v 1: pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The
landlord cannot resile from the lease"
2: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after
they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate,
ricochet]
3: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually
under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about
his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" [syn: abjure,
recant, forswear, retract, resile]
4: return to the original position or state after being
stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"