Revoke

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Origin

Latin revocare, re- + vox

Full definition of revoke

Verb

1. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversingYour driver's license will be revoked.
2. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
3. (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
• SpenserThe faint sprite he did revoke again,
  To her frail mansion of morality.
4. (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
• SpenserShe still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
5. (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
6. (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
• SouthA man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

Noun

1. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
2. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
3. 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.