resile

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
2. verb To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

Similar words

reject recule recoil recede pull back revulse backstep resiliate retract recoyle

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resiled resiles resiling