recant

1. V-T/V-I If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past. 公開(kāi)放棄(信仰)[正式]

White House officials ordered Williams to recant. 白宮官員命令威廉斯公開(kāi)宣布放棄自己的觀點(diǎn)。

...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy. ...遭受酷刑后仍拒絕放棄其異教信仰的一名男子。