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"

resile \re*sile"\ (r[-e]*z[imac]l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   resiled (-z[imac]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.
   [1913 Webster] resilience