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All renege synonyms

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verb renege

  • inversed — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
  • beg off — to ask to be released from an engagement, obligation, etc
  • evert — Turn (a structure or organ) outward or inside out.
  • cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
  • go back — return
  • go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
  • abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
  • beat around the bush — to talk around a subject without getting to the point
  • get cold feet — (Idiomatic) VI to become nervous or anxious and reconsider a decision about an upcoming event.
  • get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • give notice — warn, inform
  • everted — Simple past tense and past participle of evert.
  • give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
  • blow off — If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
  • inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
  • break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
  • cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
  • disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
  • waive — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
  • forget it — certainly not
  • change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
  • abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
  • invert — to turn upside down.
  • nixing — nothing.
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
  • nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
  • drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
  • give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
  • lay low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
  • back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
  • back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
  • welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
  • forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
  • defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
  • back-pedal — If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
  • disannul — to annul utterly; make void: to disannul a contract.
  • withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
  • give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • flipflop — Alternative form of flip-flop.
  • eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
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