Go Back On

Definition: Go Back On

Go Back On

Verb

1. Fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Go Back On

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Crosswords: Go Back On

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "go back on": go back on a friend ♦ go back on one's word ♦ go back on smb. ♦ To go back on. Additional references.

Albanian

tradhtoj (betray, double cross, fool about, fool around, quisle, rat, sell out, two time), pres në besë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏وفى بوعده (deliver, deliver the goods, honor, honour, promise, redeem), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отстъпвам от (surrender), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

背約 (break an agreement, fail to keep one's promise, go back on one's word). (various references)

Czech

nedodržet (break). (various references)

French

tenir sa promesse (do good), abandonner (let go). (various references)

German

zurücknehmen (bring back, call back, cancel, recant, retract, reverse, revoke, take back, to take back, withdraw), rückgängig machen (call off, cancel, countermand, reverse, to annul, undo). (various references)

Greek 

υπαναχωρώ (back out, retract, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian

cserbenhagy valakit (walk out on). (various references)

Italian

ritirarsi (drop out, ebb, flinch, neap, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, shrink, stand down, withdraw). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay ackbay onay

Portuguese

faltar com. (various references)

Romanian

nu se ţine de cuvânt (break one's promise, go back on one's word), fi necinstit faţa de un prieten (go back on a friend). (various references)

Russian 

обмануть (cheat, circumvent, deceive, do brown, entrap, flam, have, hoodwink, overreach, play smb. false, take advantage of, take smb. in), подвести. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti se na. (various references)

Spanish

faltar a la palabra, faltar (be lacking, be missing, break, default, evoke, fail, fall short, lack, lacking, leak, let down). (various references)

Swedish

lämna ngn i sticket (go back on smb., leave smb. in the lurch). (various references)

Turkish

yerine getirmemek (draw back), sırt çevirmek (turn one's back on), inkâr etmek (abnegate, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, repudiate), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), caymak (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, call back, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go without, leave, recant, retract, swallow, swerve, wangle, wangle out of). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gaboon.

-3 letters: aboon, bacon, banco, bogan, bongo, cogon, conga, congo, goban.

-4 letters: agon, back, bang, bank, bock, bong, bonk, book, boon, conk, cook, coon, gobo, gook, goon, kaon, knob, koan, kobo, nock, nook.

-5 letters: abo, ago, bag, ban, boa, bog, boo, cab, can, cob, cog, con, coo, gab, gan, goa, gob, goo, kab, koa.

+4 letters: roadblocking.