Revoke

[rɪ'vəʊk] or [rɪ'vok]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so.

(verb.) cancel officially; 'He revoked the ban on smoking'; 'lift an embargo'; 'vacate a death sentence'.

(verb.) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so.

卡里校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To call or bring back; to recall.

(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.

(v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

(v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect.

(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.

(n.) The act of revoking.

整理:莱缪尔

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Recall (what has been said), recant, retract, REPEAL, reverse, annul, cancel, rescind, countermand, abrogate, abolish, discard, quash, set aside, do away, make void.

校對:索尼亚

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Recal, withdraw, cancel, annul, rescind, repeal, declare_void

ANT:Sanction, enact, perpetuate, enforce, reiterate, renew

克劳德特錄入

解釋/意思:

v.t. to annul by recalling: to repeal: to reverse: to neglect to follow suit (at cards).—n. revocation recall: act of revoking at cards.—adj. Rev′ocable that may be revoked.—ns. Rev′ocableness Revocabil′ity.—adv. Rev′ocably.—n. Revocā′tion,a recalling: repeal: reversal.—adj. Rev′ocātory.—n. Revoke′ment (Shak.) revocation.—Revocation of the edict of Nantes the taking away by Louis IV. in 1685 of the Huguenot privileges granted by Henry IV. in 1598."

編輯:史蒂夫