Synonyms of the word

forswear

• v. (transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
• v. (intransitive) To commit perjury.

abjure

• v. (transitive) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
• v. (transitive) To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
• v. (transitive) To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.

recant

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially…

renounce

• n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
• v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
• v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
• v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

repudiate

• v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
• v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
• v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
• v. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

resile

• v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
• v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

retract

• v. (transitive) To pull back inside.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw back; to draw up.
• v. (transitive) To take back or withdraw something one has said.
• v. To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.