отрека́ться — meaning in English

otrekatsya

English meaning

abdicate verb To formally give up a position of power, especially a throne.
abjure verb To firmly reject or give up someone or something for good.
abnegate verb To give up something, such as a right or privilege, often as an act of self-denial.
disavow verb To formally deny responsibility for or support of something.
disown verb To refuse to acknowledge someone, especially a family member, as belonging to you anymore.
forswear verb To promise formally to give something up or say it is not true.
recant verb To formally take back a statement or belief you previously expressed, especially in public.
renounce verb To formally give up a right, title, or claim.
repudiate verb To reject a claim, idea or association firmly and publicly, and to state that you want nothing to do with it.

отрека́ться is used for these senses in English:

abdicate (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. [First attested in the early 18th c.]
abjure (historical) To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw. [from 15th c.]
abnegate (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience). [First attested in the early 17th century.]
abnegate (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
disavow (transitive) To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like.
disown (transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
forswear (transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
recant (ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.

verb To firmly reject or give up someone or something for good.
verb To formally give up a belief or opinion by swearing an oath.
verb To make someone take back a belief or opinion.
verb (especially in 'abjure the realm') To swear a formal oath to leave a place and never return.