go back on

verb

fail to fulfill a promise or obligation

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She backed out of her promise

• Syn: ↑renege, ↑renege on, ↑renegue on

• Derivationally related forms: ↑renege (for: ↑renege)

• Hypernyms:

↑revoke, ↑annul, ↑lift, ↑countermand, ↑reverse, ↑repeal, ↑overturn, ↑rescind, ↑vacate

• Entailment: ↑promise, ↑assure

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s

(for: ↑renege)

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RENEGE ON, break, fail to honour, default on, repudiate, retract; do an about-face; informal cop out (of), rat on.

→ go

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phrasal

1. : to recede or withdraw from : abandon

to do so would be to go back on our own first principles — A.W.Griswold

2. : to be disloyal to : betray

refused to believe that his friend had gone back on him

3. : to prove inadequate for : fail

in advanced years a man's mind might go back on him at some unpredictable moment — Elmer Davis

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go back on

To betray, fail to keep (a promise, etc)

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Main Entry: ↑go

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ˌgo ˈback on [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they go back on he/she/it goes back on present participle going back on past tense went back on past participle gone back on] phrasal verb

to fail to do something that you have promised or agreed to do

go back on your word/​promise:

Both leaders feared that the other would go back on his word.

Thesaurus: to not keep a promise_synonym

Main entry: go

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fail to keep (a promise)

he wouldn't go back on his word