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Erase vs Revoke - What's the difference?

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Erase is a related term of revoke.


In lang=en terms the difference between erase and revoke

is that erase is to disregard (a group, an orientation, etc); to prevent from having an active role in society while revoke is to fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

As verbs the difference between erase and revoke

is that erase is to remove markings or information 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.

erase

English

Verb

(eras)
  • to remove markings or information
    • I erased that note because it was wrong.
  • To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
    • I'm going to erase this tape.
  • To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
    • I'm going to erase those files.
  • (baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
    • Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
  • To be erased .
    • The chalkboard erased easily.
    Her painful memories seemingly erased completely.
    The files will erase quickly.
  • To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
  • * 1998 , Janice Lynn Ristock, ?Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
    • I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
  • * 2004 , Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)
    • As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
  • * 2011 , Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)
    • Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.

    Derived terms

    * eraser * unerase * erasable * unerasable

    Related terms

    * erasure

    Antonyms

    * (remove markings or information) record

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    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.