Revoke

Quick meaning: Revoke is a verb meaning (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

Meaning

(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
2. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
3. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
4. (obsolete) To call or bring back.
5. (obsolete) To hold back.
6. (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
7. (obsolete) To call back to mind.

Example Sentences

I hereby revoke all former wills.

Your driver's license will be revoked.

Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,

So well he did his busie paines apply, That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe, To her fraile mansion of mortality.

Word Forms

• revokes
• revoking
• revoked

Synonyms for revoke

Depending on context, synonyms include recall, repress, restrain, withdraw, recollect, remember.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rescind, annul, repeal, renege, countermand, reverse.

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