Definition of revoke

• v. t. - To call or bring back; to recall.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
• v. t. - To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. t. - To call back to mind; to recollect.
• v. i. - To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
• n. - The act of revoking.