Definitions for resile
Overview of verb resile
The verb resile has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. resile
(pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease")
2. 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")
3. 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")
4. resile
(return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile")
