31 January 2018
renege
[ri-nig, -neg, -neeg]
verb (used without object), reneged, reneging.
1. Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
2. to go back on one’s word:
He has reneged on his promise.
verb (used with object), reneged, reneging.
3. Archaic. to deny; disown; renounce.
noun
4. Cards. an act or instance of reneging.
Origin of renege
Medieval Latin
1540-1550; earlier renegue < Medieval Latin renegāre, equivalent to re- re- + negāre to deny (cf. negative )
Related forms
reneger, noun
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Examples from the Web for renege
Contemporary Examples
Dubowitz, however, says he is concerned Moscow could renege on its promise not to sell Iran the S-300.
Russia’s Ace in the Hole: a Super-Missile It Can Sell to Iran
Eli Lake
April 8, 2014
Will Syria collapse or Egypt renege on the Camp David Accords?
Yair Lapid and the Peace Process
Geoffrey Levin
April 25, 2013
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger convinced Reagan to renege on his support for these cuts, so they never happened.
Reagan’s Deal With Democrats for Tax Increases Paired With Spending Cuts Is a Myth
John M. Barry
December 5, 2012
Today’s quote
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
– John Stuart Mill
On this day
31 January 1606 – death of Guy Fawkes, English soldier and one of the masterminds behind the failed ‘Gunpowder Plot’ to blow up English Parliament in an effort to assassinate King James 1 and VI of Scotland. Born 13 April 1570.
31 January 1961 – Ham the Astrochimp, returns safely to Earth after completing a NASA mission into outer space. HAM is an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Centre, which was located at the Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
31 January 1991 – McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in Moscow.