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Revoke vs Revive - What's the difference?

revoke | revive |

In transitive terms the difference between revoke and revive

is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while revive is to restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state.

In intransitive terms the difference between revoke and revive

is that revoke is to fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit while revive is to recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

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.
  • revive

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (reviv)
  • To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
  • The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived . 1 Kings xvii. 22.
    The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.
    Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness
  • To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
  • In recent years, The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July.}}
  • To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
  • Hopefully this new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room
  • To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
  • Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
  • To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
  • The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry
  • To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
  • To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
  • revive a metal after calcination.

    Synonyms

    * rediscover * resurrect * renew

    Derived terms

    * revival * revivable * unrevivable