Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Your driver's license will be revoked.

I hereby revoke all former wills.

1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16, The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.

[…] If, on the tenth day following, Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions, The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter, This shall not be revok’d.

I formd them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d Thir freedom,

They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof.

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

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

Word Forms

• revokes
• revoking
• revoked

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