recantverb [ I or T ]
uk/rɪˈkænt/us/rɪˈkænt/formalto announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them:
After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted (his views).
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Denying & contradicting
- abnegate
- answer
- answer (sb) back
- change your tune idiom
- defensive
- denial
- deny
- disagree
- Dutchman
- hell
- I'm a Dutchman idiom
- nonsense
- oxymoron
- rebut
- rebuttal
- speak for yourself idiom
- stand
- stand sth on its head idiom
- talk
- the hell sb is/does, etc. idiom
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recantation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌriː.kænˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌriː.kænˈteɪ.ʃən/