revoke

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English

Etymology

Latin revocare, re- + vox

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

revoke (third-person singular simple present revokes, present participle revoking, simple past and past participle revoked)

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

   Your driver's license will be revoked.

2. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

Translations

To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撤消 (cmn) (chè xiāo), 废除 (cmn) (fèi chú)

• Dutch: intrekken (nl), herroepen (nl)
• Esperanto: revoki (eo)
• Finnish: peruuttaa (fi)
• German: widerrufen (de), revozieren (de)

• Italian: revocare (it), annullare (it)
• Latin: revocare (la)
• Norwegian: oppheve (no), tilbakekalle (no), annullere (no)
• Portuguese: revogar (pt), anular (pt), cassar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: opozvati (sh)
• Swedish: återkalla (sv)

To fail to follow suit in a game of cards

• Dutch: verzaken (nl)

• Finnish: passata (fi), renottaa (fi)

Noun

revoke (plural revokes)

1. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
2. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
3. 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.