revoke

Meanings

Verb

• To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
• To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
• To call or bring back.
• To hold back.
• To move (something) back or away.
• To call back to mind.

Noun

• The act of revoking in a game of cards.
• A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
• 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.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco. revocate.