Revoke vs Dissolve - What's the difference?
revoke | dissolve |
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 terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
To destroy, make disappear
To liquify, melt into a fluid
* Shakespeare
To be melted, changed into a fluid
(chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
(chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
* Shakespeare
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
* Fairfax
* The Declaration of Independence
(legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
(cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
To resolve itself as by dissolution
(obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
* Tennyson
* Bible, Daniel v. 16
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
* Dryden
(cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.
Dissolve is a synonym of revoke.
In transitive terms the difference between revoke and dissolve
is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while dissolve is to break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.In intransitive terms the difference between revoke and dissolve
is that revoke is to fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit while dissolve is to resolve itself as by dissolution.In obsolete terms the difference between revoke and dissolve
is that revoke is to call back to mind; to recollect while dissolve is to solve; to clear up; to resolve.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.
Noun
(en noun)dissolve
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(dissolution)Verb
(dissolv)- ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
- as if the world were all dissolved to tears
- Nothing can dissolve us.
- Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
- For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
- to dissolve an injunction
- dissolved the mystery
- Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
- Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.
