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verb-intransitive. To spring back, especially to resume a former position or structure after being stretched or compressed.

verb-intransitive. To draw back; recoil.

v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

verb-intransitive. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

To start back; recede, as from a purpose; recoil.

To shrink, recoil, or retreat from something.

To recoil or rebound; return to its original form or position, as an elastic body.

v. pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.

v. spring back; spring away from an impact

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

v. return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed

"Fourthly nothing I have read or said makes me resile from the proposition which I made yesterday that we ought to withdraw from the ECHR and enact a new progressive and modern British Bill of Rights which reflects the world in which we now live not that of 1950 when the ECHR was drawn up and which is consonant with the Common law and the British way of life."

resiled    resiles    resiling   

back off    chicken out    bow out    backdown    pull out    repudiate    disown    renounce    retrovert    regress   

resilient    resiliency   

resiled    resiling   

recoil    withdraw