recant
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
Types & categories
- repudiate hypernym
Related & opposite
- forgoing derivation
- retraction derivation
- abjurer derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forgoing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | retraction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abjurer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | repudiate |