Revocable vs Revoke - What's the difference?
revocable | revoke |
Having the ability of being revoked; capable of being revoked.
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.
As an adjective revocable
is having the ability of being revoked; capable of being revoked.As a verb revoke is
to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.As a noun revoke is
the act of revoking in a game of cards.revocable
English
Adjective
(-)- Your promotion to manager is revocable if you do something wrong.
Anagrams
*revoke
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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.