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- verb
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- to retract, especially a previously held belief [Princeton Review]
- formally reject (a former opinion, belief, etc) as being wrong [Barron]
- to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly; renounce [Taisha]
- take back as being false; give up [Nandigam]
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