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Resile

Resile meaning

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

spring bound jump ricochet reverberate recoil rebound take a hop bounce bow out back down pull out back off chicken out leap

Those readers don’t resile from being left-leaning, and tend to be curious and open-minded types, open to argument.

Mr Vallance did not resile from those comments this week.