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Pronunciation : Re*voke"
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [F. r?voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.]
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked;p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Re*voke"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

i. (Card Playing)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Re*voke"
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.

(Card Playing)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913