Thesaurus: revoke

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1. v. t. To call or bring back; to recall.
2. v. t. 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. v. t. To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
4. v. t. To draw back; to withdraw.
5. v. t. To call back to mind; to recollect.
6. v. i. To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
7. n. The act of revoking.
8. n. the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
9. v. fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
10. v. cancel officially
11. 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. To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle. The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.
12. To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, inviolation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.