Word.ws English Dictionary

revoke

/ɹɪˈvəʊk/US/ɹɪˈvoʊk/

revoke verb: to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

Verb

revoke (third-person singular simple present revokes, present participle revoking, simple past and past participle revoked)

  1. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
    • Your driver's license will be revoked.
    • I hereby revoke all former wills.
  2. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
    • 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.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 22, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) To call or bring back.
    • So well he did his busie paines apply,
      That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe,
      To her fraile mansion of mortality.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 392
    Synonyms:
    recall
  4. (obsolete) To hold back.
    • Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad,
      Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 213
    Synonyms:
    repress, restrain
  5. (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
    • 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 566
    Synonyms:
    draw back, withdraw
  6. (obsolete) To call back to mind.
    • 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.
    Synonyms:
    recollect, remember

Noun

revoke (plural revokes)

  1. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
    • Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102
  2. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
  3. 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.

revoke meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

revoke in Hindi

to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
निरसन nirsan

revoke in Tamil

இரத்து செய், திரும்பப்பெறு, விட்டொழி, நீக்கு

revoke in Urdu

باطل کرنا, واپس لینا, منسوخ کرنا

revoke in Bengali

প্রত্যাহার করা, বাতিল করা
More languagesFewer languages
revoke in Malayalam
മടക്കി വിളിക്കുക, തളളിക്കളയുക, അസാധുവാക്കുക
revoke in Kannada
ಹಿಂತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಹೊಡೆದು ಹಾಕು, ಅಳಿಸಿ ಹಾಕು, ತಳ್ಳಿಹಾಕು
revoke in Thai
เพิกถอน pə̂ək-tɔ̌ɔn
revoke in Vietnamese
thu hồi

Examples of revoke in a sentence

  • Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
  • The old man's stubborn piggishness kept him from acknowledging that his wife was a better driver than he, even after his license was revoked.
  • We will continue to investigate and the USDOT urges all states to revoke illegally issued CDLs.

All 22 example sentences with revoke

Synonyms of revoke

All synonyms of revoke

Forms of revoke

Verb
third-person singular presentrevokes
present participlerevoking
past participlerevoked
pastrevoked
Noun
pluralrevokes

Past tense of revoke: revoked

Origin of revoke

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

Words formed from revoke

Words that rhyme with revoke

42 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about revoke

What does revoke mean?
Revoke means to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
What is revoke in Hindi?
Revoke in Hindi is निरसन (nirsan). See Revoke meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is revoke?
Revoke can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce revoke?
Revoke is pronounced /ɹɪˈvoʊk/ (US).
What is the past tense of revoke?
The past tense of revoke is revoked.

Words near revoke in the dictionary

  1. Revoir
  2. Revoirs
  3. revok't
  4. revokability
  5. revokable
  6. revoke
  7. revoked
  8. revokement
  9. revokements
  10. revoker
  11. revokers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: revoke (page history and authors); revoke (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revoke (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revoke (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revoke (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revoke (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-revoke.wav.

Cite this entry: “revoke.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/revoke. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.