Word Finder - revoke

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The act of revoking in a game of cards.

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A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.

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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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To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

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I hereby revoke all former wills.

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To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

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To call or bring back.

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• recall

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To hold back.

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• repress
• restrain

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To move (something) back or away.

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• draw back
• withdraw

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To call back to mind.

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• recollect
• remember

You cannot revoke privileges for a single member of the group.

He boldly contradicted the legate's theological statements, refused to revoke anything and appealed to a future council.

On a conviction of selling or exposing for sale, or having in his possession or on his premises unsound meat, the court may also revoke the licence.

The hearing officer had, therefore, been right to revoke the patent.

Read more Human Rights Watch also noted that the Afghan government should immediately revoke a recently promulgated directive restricting the freedom of the press.

The new byelaws revoke and replace with amendments previous byelaws made by the verderers and the order revokes the orders confirming the revoked byelaws.

Either party may revoke this license at any time by giving the other party written notice.

But his second wife, an ambitious intrigante, soon tired of her quiet life, and induced him to return to Turin and attempt to revoke his abdication.

The trustees may need to decide whether they should provide further directions to the agent or revoke the authorisation.

Section 226 sets out the power of the Scottish Ministers to revoke a certificate granted under section 224.

The new byelaws revoke and replace with amendments previous byelaws made by the Verderers and the order revokes the orders confirming the revoked byelaws.

It's important for parents to revoke spending privileges if teens pay late or not at all since this is not acceptable behavior when they get out in the real world.

In short, though a legislative body, the provincial council exercises no authority which Parliament cannot revoke.

The pope would make no further concessions, and would not even promise not to revoke the cause to Rome, as he did very shortly after.

This measure (amended) became law on the 1st of May, and provided for the repeal of the NonIntercourse Act of 1809, authorized the president, "in case either Great Britain or France shall before the 3rd day of March next so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States," to revive non-intercourse against the other, and prohibited British and French vessels of war from entering American waters.

After an unpromising beginning and parliamentary threats to revoke its charter, the company became hugely profitable.

For a start, will he revoke the Government's 1999 order behind which the Tories are hiding for their dastardly deed?

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The MorphoSys action asked the court to revoke CAT's Griffiths patent and/or declare that MorphoSys does not infringe the patent.

We have a group starting here in San Luis Obispo to revoke corporate personhood on a local level.

He induced the ulemg to sign a letter, praying the sultan to revoke the command for reinstating the beys, persuaded the chiefs of the Albanian troops to swear allegiance to him, and sent 2000 purses contributed by them to Constantinople.

In the case of ordinary public meetings those who convene the meeting stand in the position of licensors to those attending and may revoke the licence and expel any person who creates disorder or makes himself otherwise objectionable.

Thomas Aquinas was the first theologian to describe the Church as a divinely organized absolute monarchy, whose head concentrated in his person the entire authority of the Church, and was the source of all the ecclesiastical law (conditor juris), issuing the decrees of general councils in his own name, and claiming the right to revoke or modify the decrees of former councils - indeed, to make exceptions or to set aside altogether anything which did not rest upon the dictates of divine or natural law.