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Revoke

The act of revoking in a game of cards.

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📖 Definitions of "Revoke"

noun

1
The act of revoking in a game of cards.
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.
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.

verb

1
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
"I hereby revoke all former wills."
2
To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
3
To call or bring back.
4
To hold back.

🔄 Synonyms of "Revoke"

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
annulverb	(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
liftverb	(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
rescindverb	(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
renegeverb	(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. [(often) with on]
reversenoun	Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
overturnverb	(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
repealnoun	(transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
countermandverb	To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Revoke"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
rescindverb	(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
annulverb	(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
repealverb	(transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
renegeverb	(intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. [(often) with on]
countermandverb	To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
reverseverb	The opposite of something.
overturnverb	(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
liftverb	(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
abrogateverb	(transitive, law) To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
revocationnoun	An act or instance of revoking.
canceled	US standard spelling of cancelled. [No longer planned or scheduled.]
cancellationnoun	The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
annulmentnoun	(law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
repealingnoun	The act by which something is repealed.
abolitionnoun	(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
dismissverb	(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
abandonverb	(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
dismissalnoun	Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
discontinueverb	(transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
abolishverb	To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.