0 past simple and past participle of recant
1 to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them:
Be that as it may, the overall endeavour is a move in the right direction and it is a pity that the socialists have recanted today.
Had he at any time recanted he might have been a free man again.
Admittedly, the majority of people in the health service never did support it, but even some of its former advocates have publicly recanted.
Some of those who testified against him have recanted or contradicted themselves in their statements, which were obtained under police coercion.
I understand that since then he has recanted and has let it be known that he did not understand the full ramifications of the dispute.
I shall look at the names of those people and see whether they have recanted.
No doubt because of that clamour, the county recanted just a little.
I believe that he has subsequently recanted on absolutely everything that he originally said.
