Revoke vs Reject - What's the difference?
revoke | reject |
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
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
(obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
(obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
* South
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.
To refuse to accept.
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, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
In transitive terms the difference between revoke and reject
is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while reject is to refuse to accept.revoke
English
Verb
- Your driver's license will be revoked .
- The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
- [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
- (Spenser)
- A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.