Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
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The act of revoking in a game of cards.
Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand! 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:
A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
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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fi väärinpeluu (the act of revoking in a game of cards) · ru рено́нс (the act of revoking in a game of cards) · pt renúncia (the act of revoking in a game of cards) · bg ривок (the act of revoking in a game of cards)
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
Meanings
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
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.
[…] If, on the tenth day following,
Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions,
The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
This shall not be revok’d. c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
I formd them free, and free they must remain,
Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change
Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree
Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d
Thir freedom, 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 124-128:
Your driver's license will be revoked.
I hereby revoke all former wills.
(intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof. 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 22, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
(obsolete) To call or bring back.
So well he did his busie paines apply,
That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe,
To her fraile mansion of mortality. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 392:
(obsolete) To hold back.
Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad,
Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke, 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 213:
(obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke,
And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate
And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke,
Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 566:
(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.
de aberkennen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de einziehen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · et tühistama (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de widerrufen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de aufkündigen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · pt cassar (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · pt anular (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de revozieren (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ru отзыва́ть (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · bg анулирам (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · hu bevon (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · da tilbagekalde (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · sh opozvati (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · it revocare (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ru аннули́ровать (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · nl intrekken (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · he בִּטֵּל (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ru объявля́ть рено́нс (cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should) · de zurückziehen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · hy չեղյալ հայտարարել (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de zurücknehmen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de für nichtig erklären (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · bg отменям (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · no oppheve (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · nl herroepen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · el ανακαλώ (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · fi perua (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · vi thu hồi (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · eo revoki (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · fi mitätöidä (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · pt fazer renúncia (cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should) · ru объяви́ть рено́нс (cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should) · nl verzaken (cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should) · pt revogar (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ru отмени́ть (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · cs revokovat (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de rückgängig machen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · no annullere (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de aufheben (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · sv återkalla (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · hu visszavon (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · cmn 撤消 (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de ungültig machen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ja 取り消す (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ru отозва́ть (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de annullieren (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · cmn 廢除 /废除 (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · nb tilbakekalle (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · fi pelata väärin (cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should) · la revocare (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ru отменя́ть (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de entziehen (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · hi निरसन (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · it annullare (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · fi peruuttaa (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · de für ungültig erklären (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · es revocar (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · fr révoquer (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · ang æftercweþan (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing) · th เพิกถอน (to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing)