# revoke
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɹɪˈvoʊk/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈvəʊk/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /rɪˈvəʊk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊk

### 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.
    Your driver's license will be revoked.
    I hereby revoke all former wills.
** 1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16,
    The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:[…] If, on the tenth day following, Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions, The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter, This shall not be revok’d.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 124-128:I formd them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d Thir freedom,
* (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
** 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 22, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof.
* (obsolete) To call or bring back.
    Synonym: recall
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 392:So well he did his busie paines apply, That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe, To her fraile mansion of mortality.
* (obsolete) To hold back.
    Synonyms: repress, restrain
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 213:Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,
* (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
    Synonyms: draw back, withdraw
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 566:A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke, And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke, Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke.
* (obsolete) To call back to mind.
    Synonyms: recollect, remember
** late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132,
    A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.

#### Derived terms

* re-revoke

#### Related terms

* revocation

#### Translations
### Noun

revoke (plural revokes)
* The act of revoking in a game of cards.
** 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
* 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.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* evoker