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recant
Overview of verb recant
The verb recant has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile -- (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs")
Grep of noun recant
recantation
Antonyms of verb recant
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb recant
1 sense of recant
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> renounce, repudiate
=> reject
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb recant
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb recant
1 sense of recant
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> renounce, repudiate
'Cause To' of verb recant
Derived Forms of verb recant
1 sense of recant
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
RELATED TO>(noun) recantation#1
=> retraction, abjuration, recantation
Domain of verb recant
Domain Terms of verb recant
Familiarity of verb recant
recant used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb recant
1 sense of recant
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb recant
1 sense of recant
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
> renounce, repudiate
=> apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate
=> abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw
=> refute, rebut
=> deny
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb recant
Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile
=> renounce, repudiate
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Grep of verb recant
recant
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