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Rescinded vs Revoked - What's the difference?

rescinded | revoked |

As verbs the difference between rescinded and revoked

is that rescinded is (rescind) while revoked is (revoke).

rescinded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rescind)

    • Anagrams

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    rescind

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
    • The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.

    Synonyms

    * annul * cancel * repeal

    Related terms

    * rescindable * rescinder * rescindment * rescission

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    revoked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (revoke)

    • 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.