The Clue
Carom (6 letter answer)
The Answer
RESILE
Tags
Notes
The answer RESILE is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Related Clues
Spring back
Definition
RESILE as a verb:
1. pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
2. (bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet) = spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
3. (abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile) = formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
4. return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"