noun the act of revoking.
2. revoke ·vt to draw back; to withdraw.
3. revoke ·vt to call or bring back; to recall.
4. revoke ·vt to call back to mind; to recollect.
5. revoke ·vt to hold back; to repress; to restrain.
6. 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.
7. 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.