noun
Meaning 1
The act of revoking in a game of cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
revoke
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɹɪˈvoʊk/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvəʊk/
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Received-Pronunciation: /rɪˈvəʊk/
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rhymes with -əʊk
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CMU ARPABET: R IH0 V OW1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 V OW1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 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.
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noun
Meaning 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.
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verb
Meaning 4
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 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.
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verb
Meaning 5
To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To call or bring back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: recall
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To hold back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: repress, restrain
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To move (something) back or away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: draw back, withdraw
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To call back to mind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: recollect, remember
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: renege
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mistake, error, fault
verb
Meaning 11
cancel officially
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He revoked the ban on smoking
- lift an embargo
- vacate a death sentence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cancel, strike down
Narrower terms: renege, renege on, renegue on, go back on
verb
Meaning 12
fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: play
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: ривок (rivok) — the act of revoking in a game of cards
- Finnish: väärinpeluu — the act of revoking in a game of cards
- Portuguese: renúncia — the act of revoking in a game of cards
- Russian: рено́нс (renóns) — the act of revoking in a game of cards
- Armenian: չեղյալ հայտարարել (čʻeġyal haytararel) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Bulgarian: отменям (otmenjam) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Bulgarian: анулирам (anuliram) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Chinese Mandarin: 撤消 (chèxiāo) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Chinese Mandarin: 廢除 /废除 (fèichú) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Czech: revokovat — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Danish: tilbagekalde — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Dutch: intrekken — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Dutch: herroepen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Esperanto: revoki — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Estonian: tühistama — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Finnish: peruuttaa — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Finnish: perua — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Finnish: mitätöidä — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- French: révoquer — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: widerrufen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: revozieren — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: einziehen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: zurücknehmen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: entziehen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: zurückziehen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: aberkennen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: annullieren — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: rückgängig machen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: aufkündigen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: für nichtig erklären — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: für ungültig erklären — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: aufheben — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- German: ungültig machen — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Greek: ανακαλώ (anakaló) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Hebrew: בִּטֵּל (bitél) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Hindi: निरसन (nirsan) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Hungarian: visszavon — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Hungarian: bevon — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Italian: revocare — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Italian: annullare — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Japanese: 取り消す (torikesu) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Latin: revocare — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Norwegian: oppheve — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Norwegian: annullere — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Norwegian Bokmål: tilbakekalle — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Old English: æftercweþan — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Portuguese: revogar — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Portuguese: anular — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Portuguese: cassar — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Russian: отменя́ть (otmenjátʹ) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Russian: отмени́ть (otmenítʹ) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Russian: аннули́ровать (annulírovatʹ) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Russian: отзыва́ть (otzyvátʹ) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Russian: отозва́ть (otozvátʹ) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Serbo-Croatian: opozvati — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Spanish: revocar — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Swedish: återkalla — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Thai: เพิกถอน (pə̂ək-tɔ̌ɔn) — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Vietnamese: thu hồi — to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
- Dutch: verzaken — cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
- Finnish: pelata väärin — cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
- Portuguese: fazer renúncia — cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
- Russian: объявля́ть рено́нс (obʺjavljátʹ renóns) — cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
- Russian: объяви́ть рено́нс (obʺjavítʹ renóns) — cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should