Verb

(head)

(resile)

Verb

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

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, 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

(head)

(resole)

Verb

(resol)

To replace or reattach the sole of an article of footwear.

I had to resole my boot after I stepped on a nail.