Revoke

[rɪ'vəʊk] or [rɪ'vok]

Definition

(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.

Edited by Cary--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checked by Lemuel

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Typist: Sonia

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

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

Edited by Claudette

Definition

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."

Checker: Steve