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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revoke \Re*voke"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Revoked};p. pr. & vb. n. {Revoking}.] [F. r['e]voquer, 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. --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 like. --Shak.
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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revoke \Re*voke"\, verb (used without an object) (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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revoke \Re*voke"\, noun (Card Playing) The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. --Lamb.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revoke
noun: the mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: {renege}]
verb
1: fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
2: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: {annul}, {lift}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal}, {overturn}, {rescind}, {vacate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "revoke": abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, bring to naught, cancel, cite, climb down, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, countermand, counterorder, crawfish out, cross, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disannul, disavow, disclaim, dismantle, disown, disprove, dispute, do away with, eat crow, eat humble pie, erase, expunge, forswear, gainsay, impugn, invalidate, join issue upon, lift, make void, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, recollect, refuse to admit, refute, remember, remind, reminisce, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, retain, retract, retrospect, reverse, revive, set aside, suspend, swallow, take back, take issue with, undo, unsay, vacate, veto, void, waive, withdraw, write off
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