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recantingverbpresent participle 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 abjuring, abnegating, forswearing(also foreswearing), reneging, renouncing, repealing, repudiating, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawing contradicting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, negativingabandoning, bolting, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, revoking adhering (to) acknowledging, admitting, affirming, asserting, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, maintaining, proclaiming, professing, stating, vouching, vowingbacking, confirming, defending, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, maintaining, supporting, upholdingaccepting, adopting, embracing |