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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
renege
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
renege on a pledgeformal (= not keep it)
▪ The government reneged on its electoral pledges.
renege on a promiseformal (= break it)
▪ It is tempting for the government to renege on its promise.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ The suit further alleges that the sheik reneged on repeated oral pledges to provide for her long-term care.
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ The gaolers of Holovich reneged on the agreement, the exchange will not take place.
▪ They now feel that the Foundation has reneged on that agreement.
▪ They had been bitten too often by Congress reneging on agreements negotiated in good faith by the White House.
deal
▪ The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself.
▪ As the developer lurched toward bankruptcy, Prudential tried to renege on the deal.
promise
▪ Any pause in progress towards the objective is a matter of reneging on electoral promises.
▪ Amid an increasingly hostile war of words, Finley has criticized Racicot for reneging on a promise to cooperate with federal authorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An early government commitment to keep conscripts away from frontline fighting was swiftly reneged upon last year.
▪ As a result, he wanted to renege on his binding letter of intent, which he signed.
▪ As the developer lurched toward bankruptcy, Prudential tried to renege on the deal.
▪ At the same time, Landau persuaded the Boss to renege on statements that he never would play arenas or stadiums.
▪ Lewis was perfectly correct, even politically correct, to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first.
▪ The agency says it relied on a government commitment to provide liquidity, but the government reneged.
▪ The House of Lords ruled that the mutual insurer was wrong to renege on guarantees offered to about 90,000 pension policyholders.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renege

Renege \Re*nege"\ (r?-n?j" or r?-n?g"), v. t. [LL. renegare. See Renegade.] To deny; to disown. [Obs.]
--Shak.

All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the truth and thee unholy leagued.
--Sylvester.

Renege

Renege \Re*nege"\, v. i.

  1. To deny. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. To fail to keep (a commitment or promise); -- often used with on; as, to renege on one's promise.

  3. (Card Playing) To revoke; to play a card that cannot legally be played according to the rules. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
renege

1540s, "deny, renounce, abandon," from Medieval Latin renegare, from Latin re-, here probably an intensive prefix, + negare "deny" (see deny). Meaning "change one's mind" is from 1784. Related: Reneged; reneging.

Wiktionary
renege

vb. (context intransitive English) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.

WordNet
renege

n. the mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: revoke]

renege

v. fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise" [syn: renege on, renegue on, go back on]

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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.