An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
revoked
simple past tense and past participle of revoke
Source: Wiktionary
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
3 June 2025
(noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; “he is the owner of a chain of restaurants”
An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.