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recantedverbpast tense of recant to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)the Inquisition forced Galileo to recant his support of the Copernican observation that the earth revolves around the sun abjured, abnegated, forswore(also foreswore), reneged, renounced, repealed, repudiated, retracted, took back, unsaid, withdrew contradicted, denied, disavowed, disclaimed, disowned, gainsaid, negated, negativedabandoned, bolted, forsook, gave up, relinquished, spurned, surrenderedcontroverted, disagreed (with), disproved, disputed, rebutted, refutedbacked down, backed off, backtrackeddisallowed, recalled, revoked adhered (to) acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, asserted, avowed, claimed, contended, declared, maintained, proclaimed, professed, stated, vouched, vowedbacked, confirmed, defended, endorsed(also indorsed), espoused, maintained, supported, upheldaccepted, adopted, embraced |