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Recant vs Relinquish - What's the difference?

recant | relinquish |

As verbs the difference between recant and relinquish

is that recant is (ambitransitive) to withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly while relinquish is to give up, abandon or retire from 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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    relinquish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To give up, abandon or retire from something.
    • to relinquish a title
    to relinquish property
    to relinquish rights
    to relinquish citizenship or nationality
  • To let go (free, away), physically release.
  • To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
    • But it was the most fleeting of false dawns. Dmitri Yachvilli slotted a penalty from distance after Flood failed to release his man on the deck, and France took a grip they would never relinquish .
  • To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
    • ''The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

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