REVOKE

revoke, renege

(noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate

(verb) cancel officially; “He revoked the ban on smoking”; “lift an embargo”; “vacate a death sentence”

revoke

(verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

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.

(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

(obsolete) To call back to mind.

Synonyms: recollect, remember

Noun

revoke (plural revokes)

The act of revoking in a game of cards.

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.

Anagrams

• evoker

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*voke", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked;p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] Etym: [F. révoquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.]

1. To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.] The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser.

2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak.

3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.] [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser.

4. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser.

5. To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.] A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. South.

Syn.

– To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Re*voke", v. i. (Card Playing)

Definition: To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

Re*voke", n. (Card Playing)

Definition: The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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