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What is another word for broken a promise?

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Verb
Past participle for to renege on, or fail to honor, an obligation or promise
backpedaledUS
backpedalledUK
reneged
defaulted
abandoned
repudiated
welched
withdrawn
backed out
reneged on
backed down on
backtracked on
broken your word
defaulted on
failed to honour
gone back on
taken back
rowed back on
failed to honor
gone back on your word
retracted
abjured
recanted
forsworn
abnegated
unsaid
repealed
foresworn
broken
welshed
withdrew
forswore
foreswore
broke
brake
took back
went back on
backed out of
did an about-face
weaselled out
withdrew from
broke promise
broke your word
broke a promise
went back
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“Senussi, haggard and emaciated in blue prison garb, appeared with other defendants in a steel cage and complained that Libya had broken a promise to the Hague to find him a lawyer.”
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