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re⋅nege

[ri-nig, -neg, -neeg] verb, -neged, -neg⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
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)
3. Archaic. to deny; disown; renounce.
–noun
4. Cards. an act or instance of reneging.

Origin:
1540–50; earlier renegue < ML renegāre, equiv. to re- re- + negāre to deny (cf. negative )


re⋅neg⋅er, noun
re·nege   (rĭ-něg', -nĭg')   
v.   re·neged, re·neg·ing, re·neges

v.   intr.
  1. To fail to carry out a promise or commitment: reneged on the contract at the last minute.
  2. Games To fail to follow suit in cards when able and required by the rules to do so.
v.   tr.
To renounce; disown.
n.  The act of reneging.

[Medieval Latin renegāre, to deny; see renegade.]
re·neg'er n.

Renege

Re*nege"\ (r?-n?j" or r?-n?g"), v. t. [LL. renegare. See Renegade.] To deny; to disown. [Obs.] --Shak.

All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the truth and thee unholy leagued. --Sylvester.

Renege

Re*nege"\, v. i. 1. To deny. [Obs.] --Shak.

2. (Card Playing) To revoke. [R.]

renege 
1548, from M.L. renegare, from L. re-, intensive prefix, + negare "deny" (see deny).
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