resile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: resile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for resile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
resile v pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease" 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, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet 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, resile return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Resile \Re*sile"\ (r?-z?l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Resiled} (-z?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Resiling}.] [L. resilire to leap or spring back; pref. re- re- + salire to leap, spring. See {Salient}.] To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. --J. Ellis.