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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
Pronunciation
Verb
revoke (third-person singular simple present revokes, present participle revoking, simple past and past participle revoked)
- (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
Your driver's license will be revoked.
I hereby revoke all former wills.
- 1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16,
- The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] If, on the tenth day following,
Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions,
The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
This shall not be revok’d.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 124-128:I formd them free, and free they must remain,
Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change
Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree
Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d
Thir freedom,
- (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
- (obsolete) To call or bring back.
- Synonym: recall
- (obsolete) To hold back.
- Synonyms: repress, restrain
- (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
- Synonyms: draw back, withdraw
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 566: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.
- (obsolete) To call back to mind.
- Synonyms: recollect, remember
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Armenian: չեղյալ հայտարարել (čʻeġyal haytararel)
- Bulgarian: отменям (bg) (otmenjam), анулирам (bg) (anuliram)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 撤消 (zh) (chèxiāo), 廢除/废除 (zh) (fèichú)
- Czech: revokovat (cs) impf
- Danish: tilbagekalde
- Dutch: intrekken (nl), herroepen (nl)
- Esperanto: revoki (eo)
- Estonian: tühistama
- Finnish: peruuttaa (fi), perua (fi), mitätöidä (fi)
- French: révoquer (fr)
- German: widerrufen (de), revozieren (de), einziehen (de), zurücknehmen (de), entziehen (de), zurückziehen (de), aberkennen (de), annullieren (de), rückgängig machen, aufkündigen (de), für nichtig erklären, für ungültig erklären, aufheben (de), aberkennen (de), ungültig machen
- Greek: ανακαλώ (el) (anakaló)
- Hebrew: בִּטֵּל (bitél)
- Hungarian: visszavon (hu), bevon (hu)
- Italian: revocare (it), annullare (it)
- Japanese: 取り消す (ja) (とりけす, torikesu)
- Latin: revocare
- Norwegian: oppheve, annullere (no)
- Bokmål: tilbakekalle
- Old English: æftercweþan
- Portuguese: revogar (pt), anular (pt), cassar (pt)
- Russian: отменя́ть (ru) impf (otmenjátʹ), отмени́ть (ru) pf (otmenítʹ), аннули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (annulírovatʹ), отзыва́ть (ru) impf (otzyvátʹ), отозва́ть (ru) pf (otozvátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: opozvati (sh)
- Spanish: revocar (es)
- Swedish: återkalla (sv)
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cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
Noun
revoke (plural revokes)
- The act of revoking in a game of cards.
1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
- 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.
Translations
the act of revoking in a game of cards
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