resile
[verb]
Synonyms: back down, back off, back out, backpedal, backwater, crawfish (out), cry off, declare off, renege, welsh

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resile verb intrans. [rɪ'zʌɪl] E16.
[French resilir or Latin resilire leap back, recoil, formed as RE- + salire leap. In sense 1 = medieval Latin resilire (ab) repudiate.]
1. Draw back from an agreement, contract, etc.; retract. E16.
Financial Times The club had not resiled from its agreement.

2. Draw back or withdraw from a course of action etc. M17.

3. Recoil or retreat from something with aversion. L17.
■ D. Hume I resiled from their excessive civilities.

4. (Of a material thing) recoil or rebound after contact; (of something stretched or compressed) resume an original position, size, shape etc.; spring back. E18.

5. Turn back from a point reached; return to one's original position. rare. L19.

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