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Recant vs Give_up - What's the difference?

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Recant is a related term of give_up.


As verbs the difference between recant and give_up

is that recant is (ambitransitive) to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly while give_up is to surrender (someone or something).

recant

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
    • Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant .
  • * Milton
    • How soon ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!

    Synonyms

    * abjure * disavow * disown * recall * retract * revoke * take back * unsay * withcall

    See also

    * contradict * recall * revoke

    Related terms

    * recantation * recanter

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    give_up

    English

    Verb

  • To surrender (someone or something).
    • He was surrounded, so gave''' himself '''up .
    They gave''' him '''up to the police.
  • To stop or quit (an activity, etc).
    • They gave up the search when it got dark.
  • To relinquish (something).
    • He gave up his seat to an old man.
  • * 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1, Chapter 7:
    • "Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world."
  • To lose hope concerning (someone or something).
    • They gave him up for dead.
  • To abandon (someone or something).
    • I gave up my faith years ago.
  • To admit defeat, to capitulate.
    • OK, I give up , you win.

    Synonyms

    * surrender, yield * blin, cease, discontinue * forlend, surrender, yield * * desert, forlet, forsake * capitulate, surrender, wave the white flag

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