recanted in English

verb

1

say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical.

heretics were burned if they would not recant

synonyms: renounce, disavow, deny, repudiate, renege on, forswear, abjure, change one's mind, be apostate, tergiversate, retract, take back, withdraw, unsay

verb

renounce, disavow, deny, repudiate, renege on, forswear, abjure
change one's mind, be apostate, tergiversate
retract, take back, withdraw, unsay
abjure, forswear, retract, resile

Use "recanted" in a sentence

1. After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted .

2. After the Reformation, many Catholics recanted to avoid punishment.

3. Already ill and having been threatened with torture unless he recanted, he did.

4. 7 After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted .

5. 18 Indeed, Beatrice is notorious for signing the 1889 women's appeal against female suffrage, though she later recanted.

6. Synonyms for Backtracked include retracted, backpedaled, backpedalled, reversed, changed, rethought, recanted, withdrew, withdrawn and budged

7. After years of persecution, approximately five hundred and fifty thousand of them recanted, or Abjured, their faith

8. Lydia Davis has recanted her testimony and won't be joining us on our trip to Washington.

9. Of beggars; hypocrisy, sham, pretense, humbug Not to be confused with: can't – contraction of cannot reCant – withdraw or disavow; revoke, rescind, deny: He reCanted his

10. Mannix wrote: “Very few of the Christians recanted, although an altar with a fire burning on it was generally kept in the arena for their convenience.

11. ISBN 1-60552-014-4 (The self-published story of Barbara Dayton, who claimed to have staged the hijacking disguised as a man, then recanted her story.)