resile-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: recant or renege on a belief or agreement

Examples:
Bush administration has resiled from some international treaties.
India has resiled from its UN obligations.
There is a tendency to resile from the old theory of chance.
I do not resile from a single word I have written about the bank's collapse.
Mr Miliband does not resile from his vote for the war.
The government would not resile from it's commitment.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: resile.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: spring back to original shape

Examples:
The rubber tubes resiled.
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: resile.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 4