Revoke

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of Revoking.

II. Revoke ·vt To draw back; to Withdraw.

III. Revoke ·vt To call or bring back; to Recall.

IV. Revoke ·vt To call back to mind; to Recollect.

V. Revoke ·vt To hold back; to Repress; to Restrain.

VI. Revoke ·vi To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to Renege.

VII. Revoke ·vt Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to Repeal; to Rescind; to Cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.