Renege

Definition: Renege

Renege

Noun

1. The mistake of not following suit when able to do so.

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.
 

Date "renege" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references)

Synonyms: Renege

Civil Liberties

Russia

Churches have been targeted for ostensible criminal investigations, landlords have been pressured to renege on contracts, and in some cases, the security services may have influenced the Ministry of Justice in registration applications. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

Over 100 persons were killed in riots before Babangida agreed to hand over power to an "interim government" on August 27, 1993. Babangida then had second thoughts and attempted to renege on his decision, but without popular and military support he was forced to hand over to Ernest Shonekan, a nonpartisan businessman. (references)

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Expression using "renege": renege on. Additional references.

Albanian

tradhtim, nuk mbaj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكر (contradict, controvert, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, recant, renounce, repudiate, retract, unreel), ‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏رجع في كلامه (go back). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ренонс (renounce, revoke), не изпълнявам обещание, не изпълнявам задължение, правя ренонс (renounce, revoke), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�弃 (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references)

Czech

renoncovat, odmítnout (decline, deny, impeach, kill, rebuff, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, snub, turn down, wave aside). (various references)

Farsi 

گول زدن(د.گ.), ترک تابعیت کشوریادین خودراکردن , انکارکردن (Deny, Disclaim, Dispute, Gainsay, Renounce, Repudiate, Unsay), دبه کردن . (various references)

French

renoncer � (relinquish), réfuter (rebut, refute), manquer � sa parole. (various references)

German

absagen (call off, cancel, cry off, decline, refuse, to call off, to renege, turn down). (various references)

Greek 

παραβαίνω κανόνα παιγνιδιού, παραβαίνω υπόσχεση, ανακαλώ (abrogate, annul, call off, countermand, recall, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תכחש (abjure, disavow, recant, renounce, repudiate, retract). (various references)

Hungarian

megcsal (cozen, to abuse, to beguile, to bilk, to cheat, to circumvent, to cozen, to cuckold, to deceive, to delude, to finagle, to gyp, to renege, to swindle, to yard on sy), hatálytalanít (invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, revoke, to abate, to frustrate, to invalidate, to null, to nullify, to quash, to repeal, to rescind, to revoke, to stultify, to supersede), becsap (cheat, chouse, deceive, delude, diddle, double cross, fob, gyp, hocus, hocus pocus, mislead, nobble, slam, spoof, string along, take in, to abuse, to bang, to bilk, to bluff, to chisel, to con, to cozen, to deceive, to delude, to dupe, to finagle, to fox, to gull, to hoax, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to hoodwink, to humbug, to jink, to keep tricking sy, to kid, to let in, to let into, to mock at sg, to nick, to nick sy for sg, to pass the buck, to pole, to put off, to renege, to rook, to scam, to shaft, to shuck, to spoof, to suck sy in, to swindle, to take in, to trick, to victimize, two time). (various references)

Indonesian

mungkir (disavow). (various references)

Italian

venire meno a (renegue), mancare a (renegue). (various references)

Manx

keiltyn (conceal, concealment, cover, cover up, disguise, dissimulate, dissimulation, harbour, hide, shelter, sneak, suppress, suppression, veil, veneer), cloie branglash (cheat at games). (various references)

Pig Latin

enegeray.(various references)

Portuguese

faltar � palavra. (various references)

Russian 

отрекаться (abdicate, abjure, disclaim, disown, forswear, recant, renounce, repudiate), отщепенец (renegade), нарушать (contravene, disrupt, entrench, infringe, intrench, screw up, transgress, trespass against, trouble, upset, violate, violating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ne držati. (various references)

Spanish

no cumplir (back out, dishonor, dishonour, neglect), faltar a su palabra (break faith, break one's word). (various references)

Swedish

ta tillbaka (declare off, recant, take back), inte bekänna färg. (various references)

Thai

ผิ�"สัญญา. (various references)

Turkish

reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), sözünden dönmek (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back pedal, backtrack, break one's word), kurallara uymamak, hile yapmak (cheat, chicane, clip, cog, finagle, gerrymander, load the dice, manipulate, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, rig, rook, sharp, swindle), dininden dönmek, 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, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, 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). (various references)

Ukrainian

відректися від свого слова (renegue), зрікатися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, deny, disclaim, forswear, recant, renegue, renounce, repudiate, resign). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "renege": reneged, reneger, renegers, reneges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Renege" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Henige, raege, reene, regene, Reinagle, renage, reneage, renede, renee, reneg, renegeb, renegg, renegue, Renga, renge, renige, renigs, rennig, rentee, renue, Resegh, Riege, Rineke, treneague. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: genre, green.

-2 letters: eger, erne, gene, gree.

-3 letters: eng, ere, erg, ern, gee, gen, nee, ree, reg.

-4 letters: en, er, ne, re.

+1 letter: epergne, greened, greener, greenie, regreen, reneged, reneger, reneges, revenge.

+2 letters: emergent, energies, energise, energize, engender, engineer, epergnes, gendered, generate, greenery, greenest, greenier, greenies, greenlet, merengue, mergence, reengage, regreens, renegade, renegers, reseeing, revenged, revenger, revenges, teenager, vergence.

+3 letters: agreement, decreeing, detergent, eagerness, emergence, emergency, emergents, energetic, energised, energises, energized, energizer, energizes, engenders, engineers, evergreen, fenugreek, generable, generated, generates, genteeler, greatened, greenbelt, greengage, greenhead, greeniest, greenlets, greenness, menagerie, merengues, mergences, messenger, neglecter, nondegree, peregrine, redeeming, reengaged, reengages, reengrave, refeeding, refeeling, regencies, regreened, reheeling, remeeting, renegaded, renegades, reseeding, reseeking, revengers, supergene, teenagers, teetering, veneering, vergences.