See recant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "How soon […] ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!",
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
"word": "撤回"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"word": "odvolat"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "vetää takaisin"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
"word": "perua puheensa"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
"word": "retirer"
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"code": "de",
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
"word": "zurückziehen"
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "widerrufen"
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly",
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{
"code": "is",
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"code": "sh",
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"ref": "1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:",
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