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1) to take back or withdraw (a statement, offer, opinion etc) (retract)

2) to take (something) out or away; to take back (a statement, an offer); (to cause a person, animal, claw etc) to move back or away (withdraw)

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Meaning:
foreswear

forswear

abandon, disavow

forswear

to give up doing or using (something bad)

abandon, disavow

recant

to give up (an opinion, a belief) publicly; admit (a statement) was false

take back something said

recapture

to capture (a person, animal etc) again; to think about, imagine (something)

regain

recover

to get back (something lost etc); get back the use of (something)

find again

resume

to begin (something) again after stopping for a time; to take or occupy (something) again

begin again

retake

to capture, photograph, (something) again

resume

retook

of retake

resume

retract

to take back or withdraw (a statement, offer, opinion etc)

take back; renege on

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