1. Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
   - abjure, forswear, retract, resile

Derived forms: recanted, recants, recanting

See also: recantation

Type of: disown, renounce, repudiate

Encyclopedia: Recant

• recessional march
• recessionary
• recessive
• recessive allele
• recessive gene
• recharge
• rechargeable
• recharter
• recheck
• recherché
• rechewed food
• rechristen
• recidivate
• recidivism
• recidivist
• Recife
• recipe
• recipient
• recipient role
• reciprocal
• reciprocal cross
• reciprocal inhibition
• reciprocal ohm
• reciprocal pronoun
• reciprocal-inhibition therapy