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re-nig

re-nig is the alternative form of renig.

Meaning of renig

Verb

renig (third-person singular simple present renigs, present participle renigging, simple past and past participle renigged)

  1. (US, colloquial, dated) To renege.
    • My partner held the winning trick, and when the last card was on the board the score stood four to four. […] [T]he next gentleman will kindly follow suit — there is no renigging in this game — and the gentleman on my right will do the same.1897, Munsey's Magazine, volume 16, page 559

Forms of re-nig

third-person singular presentre-nigs
present participlere-nigging
past participlere-nigged
pastre-nigged

Questions about re-nig

What is re-nig the alternative form of?
Re-nig is the alternative form of renig.

Words near re-nig in the dictionary

  1. re-members
  2. re-Mirandize
  3. re-Mirandized
  4. re-Mirandizes
  5. re-Mirandizing
  6. re-nig
  7. re-nigged
  8. re-nigging
  9. re-nigs
  10. re-occlude
  11. re-occluded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-nig (page history and authors); renig (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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