vt.撤回(声明),放弃(信仰或主张);
例句:
What if I had to get you recant?
如果我不得不让你放弃信仰?
The torture can not make the man recant.
拷问者不能使那个人放弃他的主张.
...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人