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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REVO'KE, v.t. [L. revoco; re and voco, to call.]
1. To recall; to repeal; to reverse. A law, decree or sentence is revoked by the same authority which enacted or passed it. A charter or grant which vests rights in a corporation, cannot be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.
2. To check; to repress; as, to revoke rage. [Not in use.]
3. To draw back.
Seas are troubled when they do revoke their flowing waves into themselves again. [Unusual.]
REVO'KE, v.i. To renounce at cards.
REVO'KE, n. The act of renouncing at cards.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: revoke, renege] v
1: fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
2: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (revoked; revoking) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French revocer, revoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + vocare to call, from voc-, vox voice — more at voice Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to annul by recalling or taking back ; rescind <revoke a will> 2. to bring or call back intransitive verb to fail to follow suit when able in a card game in violation of the rules • revoker noun II. noun Date: 1709 an act or instance of revoking in a card game

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. rescind, withdraw, or cancel (a decree or promise etc.). 2 intr. Cards fail to follow suit when able to do so. --n. Cards the act of revoking. Derivatives: revocable adj. revocability n. revocation n. revocatory adj. revoker n. Etymology: ME f. OF revoquer or L revocare (as RE-, vocare call)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Revoke Re*voke", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked;p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] [F. r['e]voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Revoke Re*voke", v. i. (Card Playing) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. --Hoyle.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Revoke Re*voke", n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. --Lamb.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(revokes, revoking, revoked) When people in authority revoke something such as a licence, a law, or an agreement, they cancel it. (FORMAL) The government revoked her husband's license to operate migrant labor crews. VERB: V n • revocation The Montserrat government announced its revocation of 311 banking licences.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Recall (what has been said), recant, retract, repeal, reverse, annul, cancel, rescind, countermand, abrogate, abolish, make void.

Moby Thesaurus

abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, bring to naught, cancel, cite, climb down, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, countermand, counterorder, crawfish out, cross, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disannul, disavow, disclaim, dismantle, disown, disprove, dispute, do away with, eat crow, eat humble pie, erase, expunge, forswear, gainsay, impugn, invalidate, join issue upon, lift, make void, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, recollect, refuse to admit, refute, remember, remind, reminisce, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, retain, retract, retrospect, reverse, revive, set aside, suspend, swallow, take back, take issue with, undo, unsay, vacate, veto, void, waive, withdraw, write off