revoke.
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
Meaning & usage
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
Your driver's license will be revoked.
I hereby revoke all former wills.
To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
To call or bring back.
To hold back.
To move (something) back or away.
To call back to mind.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
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