Forfeit vs Revoke - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between forfeit and revoke

is that forfeit is a penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor while revoke is the act of revoking in a game of cards.

As verbs the difference between forfeit and revoke

is that forfeit is to suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance while revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

As an adjective forfeit

is lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

forfeit

English

Noun

(en noun)

A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.

That he our deadly forfeit should release'' (John Milton, ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity , 1629)

A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.

He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.

* Shakespeare

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits .

Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.

* Goldsmith

Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.

(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.

* Ld. Berners

to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit

Verb

(en verb)

To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance

He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.

To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules

Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.

To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

To fail to keep an obligation.

* Shakespeare

I will have the heart of him if he forfeit .

Usage notes

* Very rarely, forfeit is used as the past tense form and past participle (i.e., the past tense forms and the present tense form are homographs).

Synonyms

* (lose a contest) capitulate, surrender * (voluntarily give up) forgo, withgo

Derived terms

* forfeits * nonforfeited * nonforfeiting * nonforfeiture

Adjective

(-)

Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

* Shakespeare

thy wealth being forfeit to the state

* Emerson

to tread the forfeit paradise

English irregular verbs English verbs with base form identical to past participle English words not following the I before E except after C rule

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.