Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling.
- intransitive verb To fail to follow suit in cards when required and able to do so.
- noun Failure to follow suit in a card game when required and able to do so.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call back; summon back; cause to return.
- To bring back to consciousness; revive; resuscitate.
- To call back to memory; recall to mind.
- To annul by recalling or taking back; make void; cancel; repeal; reverse: as, to revoke a will; to revoke a privilege.
- To restrain; repress; check.
- To give up; renounce.
- Synonyms Recant, Abjure, etc. (see
renounce ); Repeal, Rescind, etc. (seeabolish ). - To recall a right or privilege conceded in a previous act or promise.
- In card-playing, to neglect to follow suit when the player can and should do so.
- noun Revocation; recall.
- noun In card-playing, the act of revoking; a failure to follow suit when the player can and Should do so.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Card Playing) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
- transitive verb obsolete To call or bring back; to recall.
- transitive verb Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act.
- transitive verb obsolete To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
- transitive verb obsolete To draw back; to withdraw.
- transitive verb obsolete To call back to mind; to recollect.
- noun (Card Playing) The act of revoking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- verb intransitive To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
- noun The act of revoking in a game of cards.
- noun A
renege ; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. - noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cancel officially
- verb fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
- noun the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word revoke has appeared in 97 New York Times articles in the past year, including on April 7 in Housing Authority, Facing
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2010
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I call a revoke, Dal; you trumped spades on the second round. "
When a Man Marries Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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After this remark by the Dummy, the Declarer claims a revoke, the claim is disputed upon the ground that the Dummy called the revoke to the attention of the Declarer.
Auction of To-day Milton C. Work
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A revoke occurs when a player, other than dummy, holding one or more cards of the suit led, plays a card of a different suit.
Auction of To-day Milton C. Work
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The penalty for the revoke is the most severe in Auction, many think it unreasonably so, and a player is unquestionably entitled to every protection the law affords him.
Auction of To-day Milton C. Work
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"revoke" -- the literary act after which, if he does it on purpose, you must not play with a man -- is speaking of authors and books which he has not read and cannot read in the original, while he leaves you ignorant of his ignorance.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it.
GNU GPL: It's Irrevocable glyn moody 2008
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"The word 'revoke' has a negative connotation, but [the relationship] was anything but that," he said.
News From DefenseNews.com CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS 2010
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To "revoke" a device we just leave off the copy of the media key encrypted with his secret key!
Doom9's Forum 2010
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O'Reilly's Christmas paranoia: They want to 'revoke' Christmas!
Think Progress 2009
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