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Revoke   /rɪvˈoʊk/  /rivˈoʊk/   Listen
verb
Revoke  v. t.  (past & past part. revoked;pres. part. revoking)  
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.
3.
To hold back; to repress; to restrain. (Obs.) "(She) still strove their sudden rages to revoke."
4.
To draw back; to withdraw. (Obs.)
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."
Synonyms: To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.


Revoke  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.


noun
Revoke  n.  (Card Playing) The act of revoking. "She (Sarah Battle) never made a revoke."





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"Revoke" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kohler, the Austrian Commissioner, and said to him, "I have reflected on what I ought to do, and I am determined not to depart. The Allies are not faithful to their engagements with me. I can, therefore, revoke my abdication, which was only conditional. More than a thousand addresses were delivered to me last night: I am conjured to resume the reins of government I renounced my rights to the crown only to avert the horrors of a civil war, having never had any other abject in view than the ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... the censorship resumes complete sway, and is now able to revoke that which was granted in a moment of weakness. That the forgetting of dreams explains this in part, at least, we are convinced by our experience, confirmed again and again. During the relation of a dream, ...
— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud
... vocation, advocate, irrevocable, vociferous, provoke, revoke, evoke, convoke; (2) vocable, vocabulary, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor
... William was our king declared, To ease the nation's grievance, With his new wind about I steer'd, And swore to him allegiance: Old principles I did revoke, Set conscience at a distance; Passive obedience was a joke, And pish for non-resistance. And ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. - 482, March 26, 1831 • Various
... were able. But what am I saying? Your nation is too polished to need reminding of what is just. Therefore excuse my saying that this reason alone is sufficient to cancel the law of retaliation which you have resolved to execute, and to make you revoke an order which, I am sure, you could not have given without much uneasiness of mind. I cast myself at your feet, imploring, with the most ardent prayers, that compassion, which I flatter myself I perceive in your hearts, for these poor creatures, ...
— Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 • S.C. Hill


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