intransitive verb. To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling.

intransitive verb. To fail to follow suit in cards when required and able to do so.

noun. Failure to follow suit in a card game when required and able to do so.

To call back; summon back; cause to return.

To bring back to consciousness; revive; resuscitate.

To call back to memory; recall to mind.

To annul by recalling or taking back; make void; cancel; repeal; reverse: as, to revoke a will; to revoke a privilege.

To restrain; repress; check.

To give up; renounce.

Synonyms Recant, Abjure, etc. (see renounce); Repeal, Rescind, etc. (see abolish).

To recall a right or privilege conceded in a previous act or promise.

In card-playing, to neglect to follow suit when the player can and should do so.

noun. Revocation; recall.

noun. In card-playing, the act of revoking; a failure to follow suit when the player can and Should do so.

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

transitive verb. To call or bring back; to recall.

transitive verb. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act.

transitive verb. To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

transitive verb. To draw back; to withdraw.

transitive verb. To call back to mind; to recollect.

noun. The act of revoking.

verb. To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing

verb. To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

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

noun. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.

noun. 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. cancel officially

verb. fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

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

"The word revoke has appeared in 97 New York Times articles in the past year, including on April 7 in Housing Authority, Facing"

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error  fault  mistake  play  

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