Word Meanings - REVOKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To call or bring back; to recall. The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser. 2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special

Additional info about word: REVOKE

1. To call or bring back; to recall. The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser. 2. 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. Shak. 3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser. 4. To draw back; to withdraw. Spenser. 5. To call back to mind; to recollect. A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. South. Syn. -- To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REVOKE)

• Abjure
• Renounce
• deny
• apostatize
• discard
• recant
• disclaim
• disavow
• repudiate
• revoke
• retract
• disown
• Annul
• Cancel
• obliterate
• make void
• quash
• nullify
• rescind
• destroy
• set aside
• abrogate
• extinguish
• abolish
• repeal
• Efface
• blot out
• annul
• expunge
• discharge
• erase
• countervail
• Recal
• Restore
• reassemble
• supersede
• recollect
• callback
• remember
• cancel
• Recant
• Retract
• unsay
• recal
• abjure
• renounce

Related words: (words related to REVOKE)

• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• ANNULOID
  Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
• EFFACE
  1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy,
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• EFFACEABLE
  Capable of being effaced.
• ABOLISH
  1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly. 2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. And with thy blood abolish
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• INEFFACEABLE
  Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
• SEMIANNULAR
  Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• PRECALCULATE
  To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.