recant

Verb

Meaning

To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.

To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

abjure recall revoke retract disown forswear resile disavow welsh reverse surrender withdraw reject resign deny
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Antonyms

support maintain accept agree defend adopt
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Hypernyms

renounce repudiate disown

Derivatives

recanted recanting

Anagrams

canter centra creant cretan nectar tanrec trance carnet cranet

Examples

A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game. Tina Fey

Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then - No! I will not recant. Morris West

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Martin Luther

I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then - No! I will not recant. Morris West

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant. Ann Voskamp

He retracted his earlier statements about his religion Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

recannulation recanonization recanonize recantable recantation recanter