revoke

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Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.

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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.
    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,[1]
      The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      [] 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.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC, lines 124-128:
      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,
  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.
    Synonym: recall
  4. (obsolete) To hold back.
    Synonyms: repress, restrain
  5. (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
    Synonyms: draw back, withdraw
  6. (obsolete) To call back to mind.
    Synonyms: recollect, remember
    • late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132,[2]
      A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.

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Noun

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revoke (plural revokes)

  1. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
    • 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:
      Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
  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.

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