Revoke vs Disavow - What's the difference?
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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 strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown.
To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.
Revoke is a related term of disavow.
As verbs the difference between revoke and disavow
is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while disavow is to refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown.As a noun revoke
is the act of revoking in a game of cards.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.
Noun
(en noun)disavow
English
Verb
(en verb)- He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
- Because of her dissatisfaction, she now disavows the merits of fascism.