All eat one's words synonyms

verb eat one's words

• annul — If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• backtrack — If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
• renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
• disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
• back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
• renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
• retract — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
• disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
• take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• back off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
• rescind — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• rule out — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
• pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
• repossess — to possess again; regain possession of, especially for nonpayment of money due.
• reclaim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
• disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• abnegate — to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
• welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
• recall — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
• countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
• apostatize — to forsake or abandon one's belief, faith, or allegiance
• forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
• repeal — to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
• unsay — to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
• suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
• retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
• sheathe — to put (a sword, dagger, etc.) into a sheath.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
• call back — If you call someone back, you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you.
• weasel out — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
• worm out of — If you worm information out of someone, you gradually find it out by constantly asking them about it.
• call off — If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
• fall back — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• pull in — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
• retrocede — to go back; recede; retire.