Sekirov Dictionary

revoke

UK /ɹɪˈvəʊk/US /ɹɪˈvoʊk/

verb 6
noun 3
forms 4

verb6

•
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
- Your driver's license will be revoked.
- I hereby revoke all former wills.
•
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. — 1934
•
(no longer used) 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. — 1596
•
(no longer used) 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. — 1590
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(no longer used) 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.
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(no longer used) To hold back.
- Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke, — 1590

noun3

•
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! — 1923
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.

forms

revok't · revoked · revoking · revokes

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