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verb-intransitive. To fail to carry out a promise or commitment: reneged on the contract at the last minute.

verb-intransitive. Games To fail to follow suit in cards when able and required by the rules to do so.

v. To renounce; disown.

n. The act of reneging.

v. To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.

v. In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable.

v. (archaic) To deny; to renounce

v. To deny; to disown.

verb-intransitive. To deny.

verb-intransitive. To fail to keep (a commitment or promise); -- often used with on.

verb-intransitive. To revoke; to play a card that cannot legally be played according to the rules.

To deny; disown; renounce.

To deny.

In card-playing, to play a card that is not of the suit led (as is allowable in some games); also, by extension, to revoke. Also renig.

v. fail to fulfill a promise or obligation

n. the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

"The headline on the Republican Jewish Coalition's press release today [April 14, 2009] calls on President Obama to stop the "equivocating and flip-flopping" on the Durban II conference, and the release expresses concern that the president might "renege" on his promised boycott of the conference."

reneged    reneges    reneging   

revoke    vacate    reverse    repeal    lift    annul    rescind    countermand    overturn    mistake   

deny    disown    revoke   

Whig    big    brig    dig    fig    gig    jig    pig    pigg    prig