revoking

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.
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

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