revoke
verb · nounA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
Your driver's license will be revoked.
I hereby revoke all former wills.
1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16, The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.
- 2.
(intransitive)To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
- 3.
(obsolete)To call or bring back.
Đồng nghĩa: recall
- 4.
(obsolete)To hold back.
Đồng nghĩa: repress, restrain
- 5.
(obsolete)To move (something) back or away.
Đồng nghĩa: draw back, withdraw
- 6.
(obsolete)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.
Đồng nghĩa: recollect, remember
Danh từ
noun- 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.
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ine-pro Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. revocate.