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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revoke \Re*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked;p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] [F. r['e]voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.]
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To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality.
--Spenser. 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.-
To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
--Spenser. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
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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.
Revoke \Re*voke"\, v. i. (Card Playing)
To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led,
in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
--Hoyle.
Revoke \Re*voke"\, n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.
--Lamb.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing 2 (context intransitive English) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit. 3 (context obsolete English) To call or bring back; to recall. 4 (context obsolete English) To hold back; to repress; to restrain. 5 (context obsolete English) To draw back; to withdraw. 6 (context obsolete English) To call back to mind; to recollect.
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, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]
Wikipedia
In trick-taking card games, a revoke (or renege) is a violation of the rules regarding the play of tricks serious enough to render the round invalid. A revoke is a violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating but is considered a minor offense when unintentional.
Trick-taking games normally have several rules regarding which cards may and may not be played to a trick. For example, most games require a player to follow suit or play in the suit led, if possible. Rules of this sort are sometimes called "honor rules", because there is no way to detect a violation at the moment of its commission. However, the irregularity will normally be discovered later, and there are usually strict penalties for revokes.
Some "honor rules" in different trick-taking games
- Spades, Euchre and 500 require that players play to the suit led, unless void in it.
- Hearts requires that players follow the suit led. In some variants, a player holding the Queen of Spades and void in the led suit is required to play it.
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Pinochle requires players to
- play to the led suit unless void in it, with a potentially winning (higher than the highest-so-far) card if possible;
- if void in the led suit, trump with a potentially winning card;
- if unable to do any of those things, play anything.
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Bourré requires players to
- play to the led suit unless void in it, with a potentially winning (higher than the highest-so-far) card if possible;
- if void in the led suit, trump with a potentially winning card;
- play to bourré as many other players as possible.
Penalties for revokes vary:
- In Bridge, the penalty for a revoke is normally one or two tricks scored against the offending partnership, depending on the exact circumstances, but if the non-offending side is more seriously damaged than that (typically because the revoke made a critical entry worthless), then they are compensated accordingly.
- In Pinochle and many other bidding trick games, a revoke results in an automatic set, or failure at the bid, normally precipitating a penalty.
- In Hearts, a revoking player receives 26 penalty points (all of them) and other players receive none.
- In Bourré, a revoking player must forfeit an amount of money equal to the pot.
- In Euchre, a revoking player/team loses bid and receives a 2-point penalty. The opponents are also awarded two points.
- In Bid Euchre (Pepper), a revoking player playing the bid loses the bid and receives a 2-point penalty. The opponents are awarded the bid. A revoking team playing against the bid forfeits the bid to the player playing the bid. They also receive a penalty in the amount of the bid being played.
- In 500, a revoking player playing the bid loses the trick they revoked on and the subsequent trick in which the revoked card is played. If the revoking player is playing the bid, the points are subtracted from the round score. If the revoking player is not playing the bid, the points are added to the round score.
Normally, revokes are given a penalty equal to the most severely negative outcome of the round possible. The intention is to discourage the practice, which upsets other players' strategies, to the point where the only acceptable resolution may be to declare the round void.
Therefore, a revoke rarely has a strategic advantage, except in kingmaker scenarios.
Since hands are (usually) concealed, a player can revoke (accidentally or intentionally) without being caught immediately. For example, if a player does not play a spade to a trick where spades were led, other players will simply assume that player has no spades and note the fact in future play decisions. However, most trick-taking games play a hand until exhaustion, and attentive players will soon notice the violation when a spade is played to a subsequent trick.
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.