revoke

1. v. t. To call or bring back; to recall. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. Source: opted

4. v. t. To draw back; to withdraw. Source: opted

5. v. t. To call back to mind; to recollect. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

7. n. The act of revoking. Source: opted

8. n. the mistake of not following suit when able to do so Source: wordnet

9. v. fail to follow suit when able and required to do so Source: wordnet

10. v. cancel officially Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

12. To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, inviolation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle. Source: adambom

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