Revoke

[Re*vokeĀ·]

When you revoke something, you officially cancel it, like when you revoke your sister's "coolest sibling" award because she shows your friends funny pictures of you from when you were little.

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To call or bring back; to recall.

Noun
the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

Verb
annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

Verb
fail to follow suit when able and required to do so


v. t.
To call or bring back; to recall.

v. t.
Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.

v. t.
To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

v. t.
To draw back; to withdraw.

v. t.
To call back to mind; to recollect.

v. i.
To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

n.
The act of revoking.


Revoke

Re*voke" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked ;p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] [F. r'82voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.] 1. To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality.
2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak. 3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
4. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser. 5. To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.]
A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience.
Syn. -- To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Revoke

Re*voke" , v. i. (Card Playing) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

Revoke

Re*voke", n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.

To call or bring back; to recall.

To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

The act of revoking.

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