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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɹɪˈnɛɡ/ [US], /ɹɪˈnɪɡ/ [US], /ɹɪˈneɪɡ/ [US], /ɹiː-/ [US], /ɹɪˈneɪɡ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɹɪˈniːɡ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-renege.ogg [US], en-us-renege2.ogg [US] Forms: reneges [present, singular, third-person], reneging [participle, present], reneged [participle, past], reneged [past]
Rhymes: (US) -ɛɡ, (US) -ɪɡ, -eɪɡ, (Received Pronunciation) -iːɡ Etymology: Borrowed from Latin renegō, from negō (“I deny”). Possibly influenced by renegotiate. Doublet of renay. See also renegade. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁eǵ-}}, {{bor|en|la|renegō}} Latin renegō, {{m|la|negō||I deny}} negō (“I deny”), {{m|en|renegotiate}} renegotiate, {{doublet|en|renay}} Doublet of renay, {{m|en|renegade}} renegade Head templates: {{en-verb}} renege (third-person singular simple present reneges, present participle reneging, simple past and past participle reneged)
  1. (intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. Tags: intransitive Translations (break a promise or commitment): ἀθετέω (athetéō) (Ancient Greek), не изпълнявам обещание (ne izpǎlnjavam obeštanie) (Bulgarian), 食言 (shíyán) (Chinese Mandarin), belofte breken (Dutch), rikkoa lupaus (Finnish), syödä sanansa (Finnish), pettää (Finnish), manquer à la parole (French), botarse atrás (Galician), volverse atrás (Galician), (sein) Wort brechen (German), nicht Wort halten (German), αθετώ (athetó) (Greek), 어기다 (eogida) (Korean), جا زدن (jâ zadan) (Persian), złamać słowo [perfective] (Polish), łamać słowo sg or [imperfective] (Polish), łamać słowa pl or [imperfective] (Polish), faltar com a palavra (Portuguese), voltar atrás (Portuguese), изменя́ть своему́ сло́ву (izmenjátʹ svojemú slóvu) (Russian), прекр́шити рије̑ч [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), prekŕšiti rijȇč [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), faltar a la palabra (Spanish), faltar a su palabra (Spanish), torri gair (Welsh), torri addewid (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-renege-en-verb-LjAunkj5 Disambiguation of 'break a promise or commitment': 79 20 1
  2. (intransitive) In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable. Tags: intransitive Translations (card games: fail to follow suit when capable): правя ривок (pravja rivok) (Bulgarian), verzaken (Dutch), renunciar (Galician), де́лать рено́нс (délatʹ renóns) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-renege-en-verb-aPs4Zlwu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 56 4 Disambiguation of 'card games: fail to follow suit when capable': 12 82 6
  3. (transitive, archaic) To deny; to renounce Tags: archaic, transitive Translations (deny, renounce): verloochenen (Dutch), afzweren (Dutch), kieltää (Finnish), verleugnen (German), renegar (Portuguese), rejeitar (Portuguese), renunciar (Portuguese), отка́зываться (otkázyvatʹsja) (Russian), отка́зати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), otkázati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-renege-en-verb-hSj2TuH8 Disambiguation of 'deny, renounce': 3 8 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: reneague, reneg, re-nig, renegue Related terms: abnegate, negate (english: and its related terms), negative, neglect, négligée, negotiate, renegade, renegation

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      "expansion": "renege (third-person singular simple present reneges, present participle reneging, simple past and past participle reneged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "abnegate"
    },
    {
      "english": "and its related terms",
      "word": "negate"
    },
    {
      "word": "negative"
    },
    {
      "word": "neglect"
    },
    {
      "word": "négligée"
    },
    {
      "word": "negotiate"
    },
    {
      "word": "renegade"
    },
    {
      "word": "renegation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dolly Freed, Possum Living, page 149",
          "text": "Previously I promised not to proselytize miserism, but now I want to renege a little on that promise. If your family income is anywhere near average, you can scrimp and save and cut back for maybe two to four years […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC",
          "text": "Clattenburg awarded Spurs a penalty for the third time after a handball in the area but he reneged after realising that the linesman had flagged Crouch offside in the build-up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "promise",
          "promise"
        ],
        [
          "commitment",
          "commitment"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "follow suit",
          "follow suit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1608, Josuah Sylvester, The Sepmaines of Du Bartas",
          "text": "All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) / Against the truth and thee unholy leagued.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deny; to renounce"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deny",
          "deny"
        ],
        [
          "renounce",
          "renounce"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, archaic) To deny; to renounce"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈnɛɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈnɪɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈneɪɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹiː-/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈneɪɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈniːɡ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(US) -ɛɡ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(US) -ɪɡ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪɡ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(Received Pronunciation) -iːɡ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-renege.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/En-us-renege.ogg/En-us-renege.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-us-renege.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-renege2.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1a/En-us-renege2.ogg/En-us-renege2.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/En-us-renege2.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "reneague"
    },
    {
      "word": "reneg"
    },
    {
      "word": "re-nig"
    },
    {
      "word": "renegue"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ne izpǎlnjavam obeštanie",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "не изпълнявам обещание"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shíyán",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "食言"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "belofte breken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "rikkoa lupaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "syödä sanansa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "pettää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "manquer à la parole"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "botarse atrás"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "volverse atrás"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "(sein) Wort brechen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "nicht Wort halten"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "athetó",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "αθετώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "athetéō",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "ἀθετέω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "eogida",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "어기다"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jâ zadan",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "جا زدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "złamać słowo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "łamać słowo sg or"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "łamać słowa pl or"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "faltar com a palavra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "voltar atrás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izmenjátʹ svojemú slóvu",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "изменя́ть своему́ сло́ву"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "прекр́шити рије̑ч"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "prekŕšiti rijȇč"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "faltar a la palabra"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "faltar a su palabra"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "torri gair"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "break a promise or commitment",
      "word": "torri addewid"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pravja rivok",
      "sense": "card games: fail to follow suit when capable",
      "word": "правя ривок"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "card games: fail to follow suit when capable",
      "word": "verzaken"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "card games: fail to follow suit when capable",
      "word": "renunciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "délatʹ renóns",
      "sense": "card games: fail to follow suit when capable",
      "word": "де́лать рено́нс"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "verloochenen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "afzweren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "kieltää"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "verleugnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "renegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "rejeitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "renunciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otkázyvatʹsja",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "word": "отка́зываться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "отка́зати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "deny, renounce",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "otkázati"
    }
  ],
  "word": "renege"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Polish: 'łamać słowo sg or', originally 'łamać słowo sg or impf'",
  "path": [
    "renege"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "renege",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Polish: 'łamać słowa pl or', originally 'łamać słowa pl or impf'",
  "path": [
    "renege"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "renege",
  "trace": ""
}

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