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. 公开放弃(信仰)[正式]

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. ...遭受酷刑后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的一名男子。