| renege on |
| retreat(verb, withdraw, leave, abandon, return) |
| revert(verb, upset, change, turn, return) |
| abandon(verb, reject, withdraw, leave, delay) |
| abnegate(verb, withdraw, avoid, renounce, repudiate) |
| apostatize(verb, reject, withdraw, abandon, influence) |
| back off(verb, expression, withdraw, abandon, yield) |
| back pedal(verb, expression, withdraw, abandon, yield) |
| backwater(verb, withdraw, cancel, lift, reverse) |
| blow it off(expression, idiom, withdraw, yield, surrender) |
| break faith(verb, expression, idiom, reject, withdraw) |
| chicken out(verb, expression, withdraw, abandon, back) |
| climb down(expression, withdraw, yield, backpedal) |
| countermand(verb, change, withdraw, alter, deny) |
| cry off(expression, withdraw, cancel) |
| desert(verb, reject, withdraw, abandon, return) |
| disannul(verb, restrict, cancel, undo, reverse) |
| disclaim(reject, withdraw, deny, reverse, renounce) |
| disown(reject, withdraw, deny, reverse, renounce) |
| eat crow(expression, withdraw, renounce, retract) |