recant

/ri'kænt/

BNC频率: 35980

现代语料频率: 19446

托福 GRE

vt. 放弃

vi. 放弃信仰, 撤回声明, 公开认错

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

过去式:recanted

过去分词:recanted

现在分词:recanting

第三人称单数:recants

a reparation or recantation.

An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one

n Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

plural of recantation n a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion

One who recants.

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