| verb | pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. “The landlord cannot resile from the lease” |
| verb | spring back; spring away from an impact “The rubber ball bounced” |
| verb | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure “He retracted his earlier statements about his religion” |
| verb | return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed “The rubber tubes resile” |
| bounce | noun | rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) |
| resilient | adjective | elastic; rebounds readily |
| resiliency | noun | an occurrence of rebounding or springing back |
| spring | noun | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
| bound | noun | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
| rebound | noun | a movement back from an impact |
| recoil | noun | a movement back from an impact |
| ricochet | noun | a glancing rebound |
| abjuration | noun | a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion |
| abjurer | noun | a person who abjures |
| recantation | noun | a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion |
| forswearing | noun | the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) |
| retraction | noun | a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion |
| resilience | noun | an occurrence of rebounding or springing back |