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Nullify vs Revoke - What's the difference?

nullify | revoke |

Revoke is a synonym of nullify.



As verbs the difference between nullify and revoke

is that nullify is to make legally invalid 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.

nullify

English

Verb

  • (legal) to make legally invalid.
    • The contract has been nullified .
  • to prevent from happening

    • Related terms

    * null * nullification * nullifiable * annihilate

    Synonyms

    * (to make legally invalid) annul, cancel

    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.