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Webster 1913 Edition
Revoke
Re-voke′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Revoked
;p. pr. & vb. n.
Revoking
.] 1.
To call or bring back; to recall.
[Obs.]
The faint sprite he did
To her frail mansion of morality.
revoke
again,To her frail mansion of morality.
Spenser.
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 likeShak.
3.
To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
[Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to
revoke
. Spenser.
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. South.
Syn. – To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See
Abolish
. Re-voke′
,Verb.
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.
Re-voke′
,Noun.
(Card Playing)
The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a
revoke
. Lamb.
Webster 1828 Edition
Revoke
REVO'KE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To recall; to repeal; to reverse. A law, decree or sentence is revoked by the same authority which enacted or passed it. A charter or grant which vests rights in a corporation, cannot be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.2.
To check; to repress; as, to revoke rage. [Not in use.]3.
To draw back.Seas are troubled when they do revoke their flowing waves into themselves again. [Unusual.]
REVO'KE
,Verb.
I.
REVO'KE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
revoke
revoke
English
Verb
revoke (third-person singular simple present revokes, present participle revoking, simple past and past participle revoked)
- (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Your driver's license will be revoked.
- (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
- (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
- Spenser
- The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
- Spenser
- (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
- Spenser
- [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
- Spenser
- (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
- South
- A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.
- South
Translations
to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
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cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
Noun
revoke (plural revokes)
- The act of revoking in a game of cards.
- A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
- A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
Translations
the act of revoking in a game of cards
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