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Fail to follow suit when required
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revoke
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Word definitions for revoke in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of revoking in a game of cards. 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, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French revoquer (13c.), from Latin revocare "rescind, call back," from re- "back" (see re- ) + vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)). Related: Revoked ; revoking .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: renege ] v. fail to follow suit when able and required to do so annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: annul , lift ...
Usage examples of revoke.
Marquis de Montespan, not to annul and revoke the judicial and legal separation which exists, but to inform him of your return to reasonable ideas, and of your resolve to be reconciled with the public.
Pietro Staccia was about to die and his numerous friends came to entreat Francis to revoke his malediction, all their efforts were in vain.
The board had a statutory duty to protect society at large from this kind of recklessness, and they found Hurwitz guilty of overprescribing and revoked his license.
The council to-day will revoke the suspension of the edicts, and once more the hell-fires will be lit on the parvis of every church in Paris.
And perhaps it might have been better for some folks that he had not lived to see just reason of revoking his gift.
Conversely, the State may revoke an improvident grant of the public petitionary without recourse to the power of eminent domain, such a grant being inherently beyond the power of the State to make.
In his fury against the Whigs, Charles revoked the charters of London and many other cities, which were regranted only on terms agreeable to the Tories.
Loguisse nodded, then warned Shareem that they had better deal with Kell soon, since he was making considerable progress among the Stayers, turning them against Aleytys, and his converts were trying to pressure the Tetrad to revoke her acceptance.
Shed B, early summer had been revoked and what one met at the door was the dank cold of a hunting camp when you arrive in November, the stove in the middle of the room as dead as an unchurched god.
The Shadow had played a waiting game, to bring Verdugo to a settlement that could not be revoked.
On August 24, with the arrival of a packet of letters from Congress sent on by Franklin from Paris, Adams learned that his commission as peacemaker had been revoked and a new commission established.
Quincy Adams successfully urges the House to revoke the gag rule that prohibits discussion of antislavery petitions.
The consent of the respective States to the formation of the Union had been given through such conventions, and it was only by the same authority that it could properly be revoked.
And even more important, do not automatically click Yes in any dialog box that may indicate a security issue, such as an invalid, expired, or revoked digital certificate.
May, 1919, the Left Wing fight had become so serious that the National Executive Committee revoked the charter of the Socialist Party in Michigan and suspended the Russian, Lithuanian, Ukranian, Lettish, Polish, South Slavic and Hungarian branches, expelling or suspending considerably over 25,000 members out of a total dues-paying membership of about 100,000.