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to revoke

to revoke

8.2
Fail to play a card of the same suit when you can in a card game
  • verb
  • /rɪˈvoʊk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : renegar

Examples

  • He asked Mrs. Ference if she could make a rule that everyone needed to be quiet when others are speaking and that the whole class (including Jamie) would have some of the class points they accumulated for a weekly movie revoked if someone talked or made noise out of turn.

    Academic text (2014)

  • If a player has a card of the same suit, they must revoke if they do not play it.

  • During the card game, she accidentally revoked her turn by playing a different suit.

  • He was penalized for his revoke in the match, as he had the right card but chose not to follow suit.

Antonyms

to follow suit
  • Informal
33 3.8

To do the same thing someone else did

Surface Forms

revoke infinitive
revoked past
revoked past participle
revoking present participle
revokes third person singular

Morphology

revoke = re + voke

The card-game sense is a specialized usage and 'voke' is not an independent English base, so the meaning cannot be inferred from the visible parts by an average learner.

Etymology

Revoke (verb) in card games comes from the same Latin parts re- 'back' and vocare 'to call', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of a player 'taking back' the correct play by not following the rule. So, to revoke in a game is to make a wrong play that is treated like a cancelled or taken-back move.