VERB
公开放弃（信仰或意见）
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.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。
...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人