Verb

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

* {{quote-book

, year=2007 , author=David Pollard et al. , title=Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials , isbn=019928637X , page=594 , passage=If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile' from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public require that the public authority ' resiles in order properly to protect those wider interests.}}

To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

Verb

(en verb)

To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

To withstand the actions of.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

To oppose.

(obsolete) To be distasteful to.

* 1608 , , II. iii. 29:

These cates resist me,