VERB
公開放棄（信仰或意見）
If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.
例句
White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宮官員命令威廉斯公開宣布放棄自己的觀點。
...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受嚴刑折磨后仍拒絕放棄其異教信仰的人