及物动词撤回（声明），放弃（信仰或主张）

1. 取消,撤回：recall 忆起 | recant 取消,撤回 | recapitulate 简述要旨

2. 放弃：recandescence 复亮 | recant 放弃 | recantation 取消前言

3. 公开认错：rational理性的a | recant公开认错 | cant唱

4. 放弃(信仰、主张等),撤回(声明等),公开认错：recantation 放弃(信仰、主张等),撤回(声明等),公开认错 | recant 放弃(信仰、主张等),撤回(声明等),公开认错 | remand (法)还押,押候

1. 公开放弃（信仰或意见）
If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.

e.g. White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。
e.g. ...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人

verb

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

e.g. He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
She abjured her beliefs

Synonym: abjureforswearretractresile