Cast_off vs Recant - What's the difference?
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To discard or reject something.
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(ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way.
(knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
(ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
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Cast_off is a related term of recant.
As verbs the difference between cast_off and recant
is that cast_off is to discard or reject something while recant is (ambitransitive) to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.cast_off
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* cast on * castoff English phrasal verbsrecant
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(en verb)- Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant .
- How soon ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
