Recant

Definition: Recant

Recant

Verb

1. Reject; "He retracted his earlier statements about his beliefs".

Date "recant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonyms: Recant

Synonyms: abjure (v), forswear (v), resile (v), retract (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Abrogation	Disclaim; (deny); ignore, repudiate; recant; divest oneself, break off.
Dissent	Secede; recant.
Negation	Disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant; revoke; (abrogate).
Penitence	Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience.
Tergiversation	Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Recant

English words defined with "recant": Recanted, Recanting, Retractate ♦ To renounce probate ♦ Undecide, Unspeak, Unswear. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Iran	The Government does not ensure the right of citizens to change or recant their religious faith. (references)
	China	Other practitioners have been sent to facilities specifically established to "rehabilitate" practitioners who refuse to recant their belief voluntarily. (references)
	Vietnam	There were credible reports that in 1999, 2000, and during the year Hmong Protestant Christians in several northwestern villages were forced to recant their faith. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "recant": recant one's opinion. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "recant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tërheq mbrapsht (pull back). (various references)

Arabic		‏نكر (contradict, controvert, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, unreel), ‏سحب للداخل, ‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏إستدرك القول, ‏إستدرك (obviate, redress), ‏إرتد (bounce, cringe, draw back, rebound, recoil, reflex, regress, renegade, renounce, reverberate, shrink, withdraw), ‏رجع في رايه. (various references)

Czech		odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw), odříci (decline). (various references)

Farsi		گفته خودراتکذیب کردن , حرف خودرارسماپس گرفتن , بخطای خوداعتراف کردن . (various references)

French		rétracter (retract), se rétracter (retract), se déjuger, désavouer (renounce, repudiate), abjurer (renounce). (various references)

German		zurücknehmen (bring back, call back, cancel, go back on, retract, reverse, revoke, take back, to take back, withdraw), widerrufen (cancel, countermand, retract, revoke, revoked, to revoke, unsay, withdraw). (various references)

Greek		παλινωδώ (retract), αναιρώ (confute, negate, negative, quash, refute, rescind, reverse, unsay), αποκηρύσσω (abjure, abnegate, disavow, disown, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

Hebrew		לחזור בו (back down, back out of, back up, reconsider, regret, repent, take back, unsay), ל�"תכחש (abjure, disavow, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract). (various references)

Hungarian		visszavon állítást, megtagad állítást. (various references)

Italian		ritrattare (retract, treat again, unsay), abiurare (abjure, forswear). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecantray

Portuguese		retratar-se (disavow, disavowal, unsay), retirar (remove, retire, take away, withdraw, withhold), repudiar (abjure, disaffirm, disavow, dismissal, forswear, reject, renounce, repudiate), renegar (abnegate, deny, disown, forsworn, tergiversate), desdizer (unsay), abjurar (abjure, forswear). (various references)

Romanian		retracta (call back, eat one's words, retract, shrink, unsay, withdraw), se dezice, dezice (deny, retract). (various references)

Russian		отрекаться (abdicate, abjure, disclaim, disown, forswear, renege, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oporeći (disavow, retract). (various references)

Spanish		retractar (retrace), renunciar a (abandon, abnegate, discard, give up, leave off, pass up, put aside, relinquish, renounce, resign, vacate, waive), desdecirse de, confesarse de su error. (various references)

Swedish		återkalla ett yttrande. (various references)

Thai		ถอนกลับ, ถอนคำ. (various references)

Turkish		vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), sözünü geri almak (back pedal, retract, swallow one's words, unsay), fikrini değiştirmek (change one's mind, think better of it, turn round), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), caymak (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, call back, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go back on, go without, leave, retract, swallow, swerve, wangle, wangle out of). (various references)

Ukranian		зрікатися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, deny, disclaim, forswear, renege, renegue, renounce, repudiate, resign). (various references)

Welsh		datgyffesu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recantare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "recant": recantation, recantations, recanted, recanter, recanters, recanting, recants. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Recant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arcant, arecent, brocante, ecant, ercan, ercans, Erkan, racan, racant, Rakant, Rasante, Raucana, Raykat, rcant, reachant, reca, recan, recand, recane, recang, recans, recat, recenate, recend, recentt, recint, recune, refan, Rehana, rekant, reknit, remant, renact, resant, rescent, Ressano, retant, riant, Riyanto, roelant, rucent, Rycant. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "recant" (pronounced rēka"nt)
4	-k a" n t	cant, decant, incant, scant.
3	-a" n t	ant, Aunt, Brant, chant, disenchant, enchant, grant, implant, levant, pant, plant, Quant, rant, replant, slant, supplant, transplant.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: canter, carnet, centra, nectar, tanrec, trance.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: antre, caner, caret, carte, cater, crane, crate, enact, nacre, rance, react, recta, trace.
	-2 letters: acne, acre, ante, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, earn, etna, narc, near, neat, race, rant, rate, rent, tace, tare, tarn, tear, tern.
	-3 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, arc, are, art, ate, can, car, cat, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, nae, net, ran, rat, rec, ret, tae, tan, tar, tea, ten.
	-4 letters: ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: canters, carnets, cateran, centare, centaur, central, ceratin, certain, chanter, creatin, crenate, enactor, nectars, nectary, recants, reenact, scanter, tacrine, tanrecs, tranced, trances, tranche, uncrate.
	+2 letters: accentor, acentric, ancestor, ancestry, anchoret, anoretic, anuretic, argentic, bacterin, cabernet, canister, cantered, carcanet, carinate, carotene, cartoned, catenary, caterans, catering, catnaper, centares, centaurs, centaury, centiare, centrals, ceratins, chanters, chaunter, cisterna, clarinet, coparent, coronate, courante, craniate, crankest, creatine, creating, creatins, creation, crenated, decanter, dicentra, enactors, enactory, entrance, ethnarch, increate, interact, iterance, merchant, navicert, outrance, pentarch, portance, preenact, reaccent, reactant, reacting, reaction, reascent, recanted, recanter, recreant, recusant, reenacts, sarcenet, scantier, snatcher, stancher, tacrines, trackmen, tranches, transect, truncate, uncrated, uncrates, uncreate, underact, untraced.
	+3 letters: accentors, accreting, accretion, ancestors, ancestral, anchorets, anchorite, ancienter, ancientry, anorectic, anoretics, antechoir, anthraces, anticrime, antiulcer, ascertain, bacterins, baronetcy, branchlet, cabernets, cabinetry, calenture, canisters, cannister, cantering, carbonate, carcanets, caretaken, carinated, carnitine, carnotite, carotenes, carpenter, carpentry, carpeting, cartooned, catnapers, catnapper, celebrant, centaurea, centenary, centiares, centigram, centraler, centrally, certainer, certainly, certainty, chantries, chastener, chaunters, circinate, cisternae, cisternal, clarinets, coeternal, container, coparents, copartner, corantoes, coronated, coronates, courantes, courtesan, craftsmen, craniates, crankiest, cratering, creatines, creations, cremating, cremation, crenation, crenulate, creodonta, crepitant, criminate, curtained, decanters, declarant, dicentras, enchanter, entranced, entrances, entrechat, ethnarchs, fornicate, incarnate, incurvate, infarcted, infracted, insectary, interacts, interclan, interface, interlace, intricate, iterances, larcenist, manticore, mercaptan, merchants, miscreant, mucronate, narcotize, navicerts, nectaries, nectarine, nectarous, nucleator, outrances, parchment, pentarchs, pentarchy, portances, preacting, preenacts, procreant, racketing, raconteur, reaccents, reactance, reactants, reactions, reascents, recanters, recanting, recasting, recontact, recrating, recreants, rectangle, recusants, redacting, redaction, reductant, reenacted, reluctant, renascent, retacking, retracing, runcinate, sacrament, sarcenets, scenarist, sectarian, snatchers, snatchier, stanchers, stauncher, tarriance, terracing, tolerance, transcend, transduce, transects, transfect, trenchant, trichinae, truancies, truncated, truncates, uncertain, uncharted, uncreated, uncreates, underacts, undercoat, utterance.
	+4 letters: abreacting, abreaction, accelerant, accretions, accruement, acerbating, achondrite, acierating, advertence, advertency, aeronautic, amercement, ancestored, ancestress, ancestries, anchorites, anorectics, antecessor, antechoirs, anthracene, anthracite, anticancer, anticaries, antierotic, antiheroic, apprentice, archentera, arctangent, ascertains, auctioneer, beachfront, benefactor, bracketing, branchiest, branchlets, calentures, cannisters, cantatrice, cantilever, carbonated, carbonates, caretaking, carnallite, carnitines, carnotites, carotenoid, carpenters, carpetings, catarrhine, catenaries, catnappers, celebrants, centaureas, centauries, centigrade, centigrams, centralest, centralise, centralism, centralist, centrality, centralize, certainest, chaptering, chartering, chasteners, chattering, chlorinate, citronella, clattering, cocreating, coelentera, commentary, concertina, congregant, congregate, consecrate, containers, contracted, contraries, contrasted, contravene, conversant, coordinate, copartners, corelating, corybantes, cotransfer, counteract, counterman, courantoes, courtesans, covenanter, covenantor, craftiness, creatinine, credential, cremations, crenations, crenelated, crenulated, criminated, criminates, crustacean, cybernated, declarants, decorating, decoration, deracinate, detracting, detraction, discarnate, discrepant, enchanters, entrancing, entrechats, enunciator, epicentral, eructating, eructation, escarpment, execrating, execration, extracting, extraction, fornicated, fornicates, fractioned, iatrogenic, importance, inaccurate, incarnated, incarnates, incinerate, incurvated, incurvates, interacted, intercaste, interchain, interclass, interfaced, interfaces, interlaced, interlaces, interlocal, interocean, interspace, intragenic, inveteracy, itinerancy, lacerating, laceration, lacustrine, larcenists, lectionary, lenticular, linecaster, macerating, maceration, manometric, manticores, mercantile, mercaptans, merchanted, metacenter, miscreants, monstrance, narcotized, narcotizes, nectarines, newscaster, noncentral, nonreactor, nucleators, nunciature, nurturance, nutcracker, oceanfront, octahedron, octonaries, overacting, overaction, pancreatic, pancreatin, parchments, penetrance, percentage, pratincole, preachment, precasting, precaution, precontact, preenacted, protectant, purtenance, raconteurs, ratcheting, raunchiest, reaccented, reacquaint, reactances, recharting, recitation, recontacts, recreating, recreation, rectangles, redactions, reductants, reenacting, reentrance, refracting, refraction, relocating, relocation, reluctance, reluctancy, rematching, remittance, renunciate, repatching, repentance, resistance, restacking, retackling, reteaching, retinacula, retracking, retracting, retraction, revanchist, revocation, sacraments, sanctifier, scattergun, scattering, scenarists, scrawniest, sectarians, subcentral, tabernacle, tarriances, technocrat, temperance, tentacular, tetracaine, tolerances, trajecting, trajection, trancelike, transacted, transcends, transcribe, transduced, transducer, transduces, transected, transfects, transgenic, transience, transiency, trenchancy, trochanter, ulcerating, ulceration, ultraclean, uncarpeted, unclearest, uncreating, uncreative, underacted, undercoats, underreact, utterances, vacationer, vociferant.
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