Synonym: abjure, forswear, resile, retract. Similar words: recall, forecast, decant, precaution, precarious, deprecation, decay, decade. Meaning: [rɪ'kænt] 
v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. 
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1. We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
2. White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
3. Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.
4. If Amanda Johnston were to recant, and announce that the affair began in school, Woodhead's career would be finished.
5. McNamara did not recant at the meeting nor did he apologize.
6. Galileo was forced to recant his belief in the Copernican theory.
7. They could not make him recant.
8. Do you plan to recant on your deathbed?
9. What if I had to get you recant?
10. The torture can not make the man recant.
11. Could your recant the unsatisfied call to make the our investigation more convenient?
12. However,(http://sentencedict.com) life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
13. Unless you recant your confession, you will be punished severely.
14. Editorials would demand that he either recant or retire from public life.
15. Though he was forced to change his religion,he would not recant.
16. She also testified that Irvin had terrorized her in an effort to make her recant her testimony against him.
17. During the Moscow Show Trials in the 1930s, prisoners were forced to publicly recant.
18. The magistrate Maximus offered Quirnus the position of priest to Jupiter if he would recant his faith.
19. They blindfolded Mrs Dyer, roped her neck, and expected her to recant.
20. Giulio Cesare Vanini, one of the most outspoken atheists of his time but who did not recant, was less fortunate.
21. AIM:To summarize and analyze the clinical curative effect and usage method of chitosan biological fluid dressing (CBFD) in recant years.
22. Though he was forced to change his religion, he recant.
23. TYPICAL USE : Though he was tortured to make him change his religion, the prisoner recant.
24. Though he was tortured to make him change his religion, the prisoner would not recant.
25. Smedley immediately went to court, forcing the army to recant publicly.
26. Wealth management is a new term in financial service in recant years.
More similar words: recall, forecast, decant, precaution, precarious, deprecation, decay, decade, because, take care, decayed, decadent, because of, decadence, take care of, apothecary, decalogue, in the case of, decaffeinated, reck, recur, erect, record, recede, recipe, recent, reckon, recess, direct, recoup.