Revoke

Definitions: Revoke

Revoke

Noun

1. The mistake of not following suit when able to do so.

Verb

1. Fail to follow suit in a card game when able and required to do so.

2. Annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revoke" was first used: sometime around 1350. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Revoke

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Negation

Disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant; revoke; (abrogate).

Refusal

Resist, cross; not grant; repel, repulse, shut the door in one's face, slam the door in one's face; rebuff; send back, send to the right about, send away with a flea in the ear; deny oneself, not be at home to; discard, spurn; (repudiate); rescind; (revoke); disclaim, protest; dissent.

Tergiversation

Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl.

Crosswords: Revoke

Books

• Aviation Safety: Faas Use of Emergency Orders to Revoke or Suspend Operating Certificates (reference)

• The Bank Book: How to Revoke Your Bank's License to Steal - & Save Up to 100,000 Dollars (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

At present, the Telecommunication Authority is responsible for considering applications and issuing licenses and has also the right to revoke licenses. (references)

The Central Bank is a main body that identifies official government exchange rate of the local currency to foreign currencies and has the authority to grant or revoke licenses for conversion to both local and foreign companies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Thailand

Legislation was proposed in 1998 to revoke the act. (references)

Czech Republic

The Council can issue and revoke radio and television licenses and monitors programming. (references)

Uzbekistan

The MKK is empowered to revoke licenses and close media outlets without a court judgment. (references)

Economic History

Lithuania

The U.S.S.R. demanded to revoke the act and began employing political and economic sanctions against Lithuania as well as demonstrating military force. (references)

Kazakhstan

If the agency determines that a company has not complied with its financial or other contractual obligations, the Government may revoke the operating license of the company. (references)

Lebanon

Dubai Port Authority, which was awarded the Beirut Port Container Terminal, asked to revoke amicably its contract with the Ministry of Transport (MOT) even after prolonged negotiations aimed at raising the latter's share of revenue from container handling to compensate for a smaller volume of business. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

While the IPTF may revoke officers' authority to exercise police powers, it is the responsibility of local police to fire the officers or to file criminal charges. (references)

Iraq

In February the Foreign Minister threatened to break off official ties to U.N. workers supervising Oil-for-Food Program distribution in northern Iraq, and to revoke their visas and deport them. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

Human rights groups allege that these provisions were used widely to revoke the citizenship of ethnic Nepalese who subsequently were expelled or otherwise departed from the country. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

The amended law sanctions employers rather than just sanctioning victims and requires the Government to refuse to grant or to revoke the business license of anyone convicted of the "crime of encouragement" to engage in prostitution. (references)

Nigeria

These include: Requiring all registered labor unions to affiliate with a single central labor federation (the NLC); establishing a minimum of 50 workers to form a trade union; providing for the possibility of compulsory arbitration; giving the registrar broad powers to supervise trade union accounts; and giving the Government discretionary power to revoke the certification of a trade union due to overriding public interest. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "revoke": revoke a law ♦ revoke a license. Additional references.

Albanian

revok, tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, set aside, void, withdraw). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, countermand, defeat, invalidate, invalidation, negate, nullify, repeal, repudiation, rescind, rescission, revocation, void), ‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏إمتنع عن اللعب بورقة من نفى النقش, ‏إمتناع عن اللعب بورقة بنفس النقش, ‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ренонс (renege, renounce), отнемам (denude, deprive, detract, divest, evict, overreach, take, take away), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), анулирам (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, blank, countermand, disannul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, unmake, write off), правя ренонс (renege, renounce). (various references)

Chinese 

取消 (Cancel, Canceled, Canceling, Cancellation, Cancelled, Cancelling, Recision, Revoked, Revoking). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw), anulovat (annul, annulled, cancel, invalidate, nullify, override, rescind, reverse, scrub). (various references)

Dutch

een vonnis herroepen,vernietigen (to rescind a judgment, to revoke a judicial decree), een verordening intrekken (repealing a regulation, to repeal a regulation, to revoke an ordinance, to withdraw an ordinance), een uiterste wil herroepen (to revoke a will), een testament terugnemen (to revoke a will), een testament herroepen (to revoke a will). (various references)

Farsi 

فسخ (Recision, Repeal, Revocation, Waiver), مانع شدن (Ail, Debar, Exclude, Hamper, Hinder, Holdup, Impede, Inhibit, Obstruct, Obturate, Prevent, Rein, Resist, Stop, Stymie, Suppress), لغوکردن (Abrogate, Annul, Cancel, Countermand, Disannul, Nullify, Repeal), الغا (Revocation), ابطال (Disproof, Nullification, Rescission, Waiver). (various references)

Finnish

peruuttaa (back, call off, cancel, reverse), kumota (annul, cancel, nullify, overthrow, refute, repeal, turn, turn over, upset). (various references)

French

retirer (reprint, retire, retrieve), rapporter (realize, relate, report, retrieve, return), révoquer (repeal, rescind, reverse), fausse renonce, faire une fausse renonce. (various references)

German

widerrufen (cancel, countermand, recant, retract, revoked, to revoke, unsay, withdraw). (various references)

Greek 

ανακαλώ (abrogate, annul, call off, countermand, recall, renege, repeal, rescind, retract). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבטל (abolish, annul, cancel, invalidate, nullify, set aside, suspend, undo). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavon (back down, conceal, take back, to annul, to cry off, to recall, to recant, to repeal, to rescind, to retract, to revoke, to set back, to take back, unsay, withdraw), hatálytalanít (invalidate, nullify, quash, renege, repeal, to abate, to frustrate, to invalidate, to null, to nullify, to quash, to repeal, to rescind, to revoke, to stultify, to supersede). (various references)

Indonesian

mencabut (abrogate, depriviate, draw, jiggle, pull, pull out, rescind, unsheathe), membatalkan (annul, countermand, delay, disqualify, nullify, postpone, quash, rescind). (various references)

Italian

revocare (annul, countermand, overrule, quash, recall, repeal, reverse, stop), abrogare (abolish, abrogate, cancel, repeal, rescind). (various references)

Manx

tayrnit er ash. (various references)

Pig Latin

evokeray

Portuguese

revogar (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, deprive, determine, disaffirm, discharge from, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse), revocar (recall), rescindir (abolish, annul, repeal, rescind), cancelar (annul, cancel, countermand, delete, expurgate, nullify, recall, remit, rescind), baldar-se (recall), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, cancel, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disaffirm, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutron, nullify, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside, strike out). (various references)

Romanian

revoca (countermand, dismiss, recall, repeal, rescind), reveni asupra (reconsider), abroga (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, nullify, remit, repeal, rescind). (various references)

Russian 

отменять (abolish, abrogate, annul, back out, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, disestablish, override, overrule, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, revoked, revoking, undid, undone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukinuti (abolish, abrogate, call off, cancel, discontinue, nullify, quash, rescind, reverse, set aside, undo), opozvati (recall, repeal, scratch), obesnažiti (invalidate). (various references)

Spanish

revocar (change, dissolve, repeal, reverse). (various references)

Swedish

annullera (annul, cancel, defeat, nullify, withdraw), återkalla (call in, racall, recall, rescind). (various references)

Turkish

rönons yapmak, yerdeki kâğıttan oynamamak, yürürlükten kaldırmak (abate, abrogate, dismantle, legislate away, repeal, rescind), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, resume, retake, retract, retrieve, set back, swallow, take back, turn back, withdraw). (various references)

Ukranian 

відкликати (call away, call off, cancel, countermand, recall, withdraw), відкликання (recall, revocation, withdrawal), відміняти (abate, abolish, abrogate, avoid, bar, defeat, negative, nullify, rescind, vacate), брати назад (deny, take back). (various references)

induco, recantare, retractare, revocare, revoco. (various references)

rapeler. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "revoke": revoked, revoker, revokers, revokes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Revoke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hrvoje, Levuka, prevoke, Radojka, rehome, rejoke, repoke, reuoke, Revankar, Revenko, revice, revo, Revoch, Revoe, revok, rewoke, Rzevski. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: evoker.

-1 letter: evoke.

-2 letters: ever, kore, over, reek, rove, veer.

-3 letters: eke, ere, eve, kor, oke, ore, ree, rev, roe, vee, voe.

-4 letters: er, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: evokers, reevoke, revoked, revoker, revokes.

+2 letters: makeover, overbake, overdeck, overkeen, overmeek, overtake, overweak, reevoked, reevokes, reinvoke, revokers, takeover.

+3 letters: makeovers, overbaked, overbakes, overdecks, oversmoke, overtaken, overtakes, reevoking, reinvoked, reinvokes, revokable, takeovers.

+4 letters: herrenvolk, moviemaker, overbooked, overcooked, overdecked, overkilled, overlooked, overmilked, oversmoked, oversmokes, oversoaked, overstrike, overtalked, overtasked, overworked, perovskite, strikeover.

+5 letters: herrenvolks, moviemakers, overdecking, overpackage, overstocked, overstrikes, perovskites, strikeovers, volkslieder.

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