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Blot_out vs Revoke - What's the difference?

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Blot_out is a related term of revoke.


As verbs the difference between blot_out and revoke

is that blot_out is while revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

As a noun revoke is

the act of revoking in a game of cards.

blot_out

English

Verb

  • (label) To obscure.
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  • (label) To make indecipherable; to obliterate.
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
    • From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out ; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.
  • (label) To annihilate
  • * (w) 7.4
    • And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.

    revoke

    English

    Verb

  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
    • Your driver's license will be revoked .
  • To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  • (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  • * Spenser
    • The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
  • (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • * Spenser
    • [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • * South
    • A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  • 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.