resile

Example Sentences

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However, she added: "No responsible Labour government can resile from taking decisions because they are too difficult because that is not good enough for the people we came into politics to serve."

From BBC • May 21, 2025

But he added he did not "resile from my strongly held views" on the conflict.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

We've also seen him resile from some of the threats or claims he made during the campaign...

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2016

The strict dictionary definition of "resile" is "draw back, recoil . . . return to its original position as an elastic body."

From Time Magazine Archive

You perhaps know that the children born under the handfasting engagement were reckoned lawful children, and not bastards, though the parents did afterwards resile.

From Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various