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Go back on a promise
Answer for the clue "Go back on a promise ", 6 letters:
renege
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Word definitions for renege in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renege \Re*nege"\, v. i. To deny. [Obs.] --Shak. To fail to keep (a commitment or promise); -- often used with on; as, to renege on one's promise. (Card Playing) To revoke; to play a card that cannot legally be played according to the rules. [R.]
Usage examples of renege.
An Angel can also lose his patch if he pulls a gun at a club meeting, hits another biker, steals from a club member drugs, money, bikes or even his woman or reneges on a drug deal made with another member.
Cleopatra reneged on her promise and stripped the Jews and Metics of the Alexandrian citizenship while allowing the Greeks to keep it.
So Cleopatra reneged on her promise and stripped the Jews and Metics of the Alexandrian citizenship while allowing the Greeks to keep it.
Innes had promised us a great deal in that waybut in the end, he was obliged to renege upon his promise.
Local insurance associations and loan companies kept Benedict Filesthe pen a man had used to sign his contract, his snubbed-out cigarette butt, a plastex hanky with which he had mopped his brow, an object left in security, the remains of a biopsy or blood testso that Benedick could use his power against those who renege on these companies and flee, on those who break their laws.
The big question in the small hours of the morning of November 23 was simply: would President Lyndon Johnson take the American pressure off Germany and let the indecisive Chancellor in Bonn renege on the deal?
When Apollo granted the wish and Sibylla reneged on her own promise, the angry god pointed out that the girl had asked for years of life and not for youth and allowed her to grow older and older and older.
We fought for the royal Stuarts that reneged us against the Williamites and they betrayed us.
The United States could have built in elements that could have made it easier to employ limited military operations against Iraq when it reneged on its commitments to the United Nations.
The inspectors went in and the sanctions stayed on, and whenever Iraq attempted to renege on its commitments or challenge the authority of the international community, the Security Council sanctioned military action by the United States, the United Kingdom, and sometimes France.
The KDP made countercharges that the PUK had also reneged on the deal, specifically by taking over the city of Arbil, the largest in Kurdish hands.
Having more or less agreed to her terms right from the start, John Cross had ultimately reneged and, moreover, in the most treacherous and despicable way.
She knew without having to be told that John Cross had reneged on the deal.
So amusement parks were not favorite places, but here she was on her way to Kid Kountry, a bloated monument to sensory redundance, price gouging, and group fun, because a promise was a promise and she had already reneged twice in the past two weeks.
He did not want to give Blayke fifty lashes, but neither could he renege his duty or allow his authority to be questioned.