Word "RECANT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Synonyms:
abjure, forswear, resile, retract

Crossword Clues for RECANT

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Withdraw one's testimony New York Times 17 Jul 2025
Take back publicly
Religious teaching is unable to deny earlier beliefs (6)
Withdraw and renounce a former declaration (6)
Sappers are unable to withdraw (6) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Apr 2025
Withdraw a statement Eugene Sheffer 01 Apr 2025
Eat one's words about hypocrisy (6)
Take back record given by social worker (6)
Take back, as a statement Newsday 04 Feb 2025
Take back car briefly used in lease (6)
Unsay that said
I retract what I said about the bevelled edge (6)
About an inclination to eat one's words (6)
Withdraw opinion (6) The Guardian Quick 22 Oct 2024
Engineer unable to withdraw (6)
Withdraw? Military engineers are unable to (6)
Canter about just to unsay what has been said
Disavow former opinion
Make a formal disavowal
Disavow former belief (6)
Take back something you said
Have second thoughts about hypocrisy (6)
Take back what one said falsely in a trance? (6)
Renounce a previous belief (6)
Take back what was said about hypocrisy (6)
Publicly withdraw belief in processed nectar (6)
Disavow past opinion
Publicly reject a formerly held belief (6)
Disavow note associated with hypocrisy (6)
Change your beliefs (6)
Renounce as erroneous
Publicly confess error in trance (6)
Disavow hypocrisy in the wake of religious education (6)
Take back one's statement, as Galileo did about heliocentrism
Take back another version (6)
Take back words
Take back, as a statement Universal 01 Nov 2023
Take back worker on sports ground The Times Cryptic 21 Apr 2023
Withdraw Premier Sunday 12 Feb 2023
Disavow New York Times 30 Jan 2023
Take back Eugene Sheffer 02 Nov 2022
Withdraw New York Times 13 Oct 2022
Formally disavow a belief once held The Guardian Quick 01 Jul 2022
Revoke a former declaration Irish Times Simplex 10 Nov 2021
Retract a statement USA Today 30 Oct 2021
Take back Eugene Sheffer 23 Feb 2021
Renounce a former opinion The Times Concise 27 Jan 2021
Revoke a former declaration Irish Times Simplex 25 Jan 2021
Take back The Washington Post 24 Dec 2020
Take back LA Times Daily 24 Dec 2020
Withdraw a statement Eugene Sheffer 01 Feb 2020
Take back Wall Street Journal 24 Dec 2019
Withdraw writing by virtuoso sending up good books Irish Times Crosaire 13 Dec 2019
Take back New York Times 14 Nov 2019
Engineers corps are not able to withdraw The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Sep 2019
Take back Thomas Joseph 18 Sep 2019
Part of army is unable to disavow
Take back, as testimony USA Today 02 May 2019
Take back
Take back, as testimony
Withdraw money that's regularly paid to carry around
Go back on one's word LA Times Daily 27 May 2018
Go back on one's word The Washington Post 27 May 2018
Disavow New York Times 05 Apr 2018
Go back on one's word
Disavow
Disavow The Telegraph Quick 22 Apr 2017
Renounce (a belief) The Times Concise 12 Apr 2017
Disavow The Guardian Speedy 12 Mar 2017
Soldier is unable to withdraw
Take back, as testimony Newsday 11 Dec 2016
Unsay New York Times 09 Jun 2016
Take back, as one's words The Washington Post 03 Jun 2016
Take back, as a statement Newsday 07 Feb 2016
Take back
Unsay
Change one's mind with respect to hypocritical talk The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jul 2015
Take back bombastic outburst about English Conservative
Give in to the Inquisitor Wall Street Journal 27 Mar 2015
Eat your words
Take back, as a statement
Take back, as a statement
Give in to the Inquisitor
Soak tucking into drink has to withdraw, colouring
Take it all back
Deny being divided over the return of bill
Unsay
Eat one's words
Take back, as testimony
Eat one's words
Take back
Take back
Disavow, as beliefs
Make an abjuration
Take back, as a statement
Give in under pressure, perhaps
Make a formal retraction
Take back
Formally unsay
Formally unsay
Take back
Change one's tune
Eat one's words
Take it all back
Take back
Say it isn't so
Forswear
Disavow formally
Disavow formally
Take back
Disavow
Disavow
Take back, as one's story
Forswear
Take back
Unsay
Eat one's words
Take back
Take back
Change one's tune
Take back
Religious study isn't able to change one's mind
Disavow
Deny
Take back, as a sworn statement
Take it back
Change one's tune
Withdraw
Abjure
Emulate Galileo
Repudiate
Confess
Take it all back
Insect that will take it all back
Inquisition order
Take it back
Eat humble pie
Disavow.
Retract.
Disavow an opinion.
Withdraw former statements.
Back down, in a way.
Formally withdraw a statement.
Take back.
Rescind.
Withdraw.
Say it isn't so
Have a change of heart
Make a retraction.
Eat one's words.
Eat crow
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