RECANT Synonyms

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

• pull away from a source of disgust or fear

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• pull inward or towards a center

• refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with

• renounce a legal claim or title to

• make a disclaimer about

• give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

• leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

• turn away from; give up

• cast off

• pull back or move away or backward

• withdraw from active participation

• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles

• cause to be returned

• take back what one has said

• keep away from others

• break from a meeting or gathering

• retire gracefully

• remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

• lose interest

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

• prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

• cast off

• a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

• a call to return

• a bugle call that signals troops to return

• the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

• the act of removing an official by petition

• recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

• go back to something earlier

• bring to mind

• summon to return

• cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression

• make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

• cause to be returned

• the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

• fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

• cancel officially

• take back what one has said

• bring back to the point of departure

• regain possession of something

• resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband

• move text to the previous line; in printing

• take back what one has said

• cause someone to remember the past

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

• pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.

• spring back; spring away from an impact

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

• return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed