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Revoke vs Overrule - What's the difference?

revoke | overrule |

Overrule is a synonym of revoke.



In transitive terms the difference between revoke and overrule

is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while overrule is to nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.

As a noun revoke

is the act of revoking in a game of cards.

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.

    • overrule

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
  • # To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
  • * Clarendon
    • His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
  • To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
    • The line judge signalled the ball was in, but this was overruled by the umpire.
  • (legal) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
    • 1. to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person): The senator was overruled by the committee chairman. 2. to rule or decide against (a plea, argument, etc.); reject: to overrule an objection. 3. to prevail over so as to change the purpose or action: a delay that overruled our plans. 4. to exercise control or influence over: belief in a beneficent deity that overrules the universe.