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went back on

went back on is the simple past of go back on.

Meaning of go back on

Verb

go back on (third-person singular simple present goes back on, present participle going back on, simple past went back on, past participle gone back on)

  1. To be treacherous or faithless to; to betray.
    • to go back on friends
  2. To fail to keep; to renege on.
    • to go back on one's promises
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, back, go back, on.
    • He went back on the same path.

Questions about went back on

What is went back on the simple past of?
Went back on is the simple past of go back on.

Words near went back on in the dictionary

  1. went away
  2. went awry
  3. went back
  4. went back a long way
  5. went back in time
  6. went back on
  7. went back to
  8. went back to the drawing board
  9. went back to the tools
  10. went backwards
  11. went bad

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went back on (page history and authors); go back on (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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