revoke
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revoke
- /ɹɪˈvoʊk/ US
- /ɹɪˈvəʊk/ UK
- /rɪˈvəʊk/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊk
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
verb revokes · revoking · revoked
- To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. Your driver's license will be revoked.
- To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit. They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof.
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To call or bring back.
So well he did his busie paines apply,
That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe,
To her fraile mansion of mortality.
Similar: recall
- To hold back. Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,
- To move (something) back or away. A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke, And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke, Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke.
- To call back to mind. late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132, A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.
noun revokes
- The act of revoking in a game of cards. Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
- A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rescind, annul, repeal, renege, countermand, reverse, overturn, lift, abrogate, revocation, canceled, cancellation, annulment, repealing, abolition, dismiss
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verb to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
| Español | revocar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 取り消す torikesu |
| 中文 | 撤消 chèxiāo, 廢除 /废除 fèichú |
| हिन्दी | निरसन nirsan |
| Português | revogar, anular, cassar |
| Français | révoquer |
| Deutsch | widerrufen, revozieren, einziehen, zurücknehmen, entziehen, zurückziehen |
| Italiano | revocare, annullare |
| Ελληνικά | ανακαλώ anakaló |
| Русский | отменя́ть otmenjátʹ, отмени́ть otmenítʹ, аннули́ровать annulírovatʹ, отзыва́ть otzyvátʹ, отозва́ть otozvátʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | thu hồi |
| עברית | בִּטֵּל bitél |
verb cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
| Português | fazer renúncia |
|---|---|
| Русский | объявля́ть рено́нс obʺjavljátʹ renóns, объяви́ть рено́нс obʺjavítʹ renóns |
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