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Revoke vs Quash - What's the difference?

revoke | quash |

As verbs the difference between revoke and quash

is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while quash is to defeat forcibly.

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.
  • quash

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To defeat forcibly.
  • The army quashed the rebellion.
  • * Barrow
  • Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
  • * '>citation
  • To crush or dash to pieces.
  • * Waller
  • The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed , / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
  • (legal) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
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