Verb

• 1. draw back 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"

• 3. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;

  "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"

  "She abjured her beliefs"

• 4. return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed;

  "The rubber tubes resile"