revoke

noun

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Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvoʊk/ / /ɹɪˈvəʊk/ / /rɪˈvəʊk/

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

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!”
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.

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

To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
“Your driver's license will be revoked.”
“I hereby revoke all former wills.”
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.”
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.”
To hold back.
“Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,”
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.”
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.”