English
Verb
break one's promise (third-person singular simple present breaks one's promise, present participle breaking one's promise, simple past broke one's promise, past participle broken one's promise)
- To break an assurance, bond or commitment one has made.
- Synonyms: go back on one's word, break one's word, renege on one's promise
- Antonyms: keep one's promise, stay true to one's word, be as good as one's word, deliver the goods
Translations
to break one's word
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: խոստում խախտել (xostum xaxtel), խոստում դրժել (xostum držel)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 食言 (zh) (shíyán)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: rikkoa lupauksensa
- French: ne pas tenir sa promesse
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: sein Versprechen brechen / nicht halten
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: łamać obietnicę impf, złamać obietnicę pf
- Romanian: încălca o promisiune
- Russian: нару́шить обеща́ние pf (narúšitʹ obeščánije)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: sözünü bozmak, sözünden dönmek, sözünü tutmamak
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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