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recantest

recantest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of recant.

Meaning of recant

Verb (1)

recant (third-person singular simple present recants, present participle recanting, simple past and past participle recanted)

  1. (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.

Verb (2)

recant (third-person singular simple present recants, present participle recanting, simple past and past participle recanted)

  1. To give a new cant (slant, angle) to something, in particular railway track on a curve.
    • Numerous curves, which previously had given no trouble at 75 and 80 m.p.h., were realigned and recanted to adapt them for 90 m.p.h. and more, [...].1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263

Questions about recantest

What is recantest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Recantest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of recant.

Words near recantest in the dictionary

  1. recantation
  2. recantations
  3. recanted
  4. recanter
  5. recanters
  6. recantest
  7. recanteth
  8. recanting
  9. recantingly
  10. recantings
  11. recants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recantest (page history and authors); recant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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