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renegar

renegar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Verb

renegar (first-person singular present indicative renego, past participle renegado)

  1. to renounce an ideology
  2. to disown (to refuse to acknowledge as one’s own)
  3. to renege (to break a promise or commitment)
  4. to reject or detest

Conjugation


Spanish

Etymology

Medieval Latin renegare, from Latin re- + negare

Verb

renegar (first-person singular present reniego, first-person singular preterite renegué, past participle renegado)

  1. to complain
  2. to deny vigorously
  3. to detest, abhor
  4. to apostatize
  5. to swear, blaspheme

Conjugation

  • Rule: e becomes ie in stressed syllables; g becomes a gu before e.

Synonyms

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