"break one's promise" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: breaks one's promise [present, singular, third-person], breaking one's promise [participle, present], broke one's promise [past], broken one's promise [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> one's promise}} break one's promise (third-person singular simple present breaks one's promise, present participle breaking one's promise, simple past broke one's promise, past participle broken one's promise)
  1. To break an assurance, bond or commitment one has made. Synonyms: go back on one's word, break one's word, renege on one's promise Translations (to break one's word): խոստում խախտել (xostum xaxtel) (Armenian), խոստում դրժել (xostum držel) (Armenian), 食言 (shíyán) (Chinese Mandarin), rikkoa lupauksensa (Finnish), ne pas tenir sa promesse (French), sein Versprechen brechen / nicht halten (German), łamać obietnicę [imperfective] (Polish), złamać obietnicę [perfective] (Polish), încălca o promisiune (Romanian), нару́шить обеща́ние (narúšitʹ obeščánije) [perfective] (Russian), sözünü bozmak (Turkish), sözünden dönmek (Turkish), sözünü tutmamak (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to break one's word",
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          "sense": "to break one's word",
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
      "word": "ne pas tenir sa promesse"
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
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      "sense": "to break one's word",
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