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What does "revoke" mean?

Revoke: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.] [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser.
  2. 3.To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. 4.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. See Abolish.
  4. 5.To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.
  5. 6.The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.

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