revoke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

   • Your driver's license will be revoked.
   • I hereby revoke all former wills.
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      To hold back.

      • Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,
   2. 5

      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.
   3. 6

      To call back to mind.

   4. 7

      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!
   5. 8

      A renege

      A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.

   6. 9

      A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a…

      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.

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