1. Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
   "The rubber tubes resile"
    
2. Move back in a roughly opposite direction after an impact
   "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide";
   - bounce, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
    
3. Pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
   "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
    
4. Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
   "The politician resiled from his previous statement";
   - abjure, recant, forswear, retract

Derived forms: resiled, resiles, resiling

Type of: back down, back off, bound, bow out, chicken out [informal], disown, jump, leap, pull out, regress, renounce, repudiate, retrovert [rare], return, revert, spring, turn back