Revoked vs Retracted - What's the difference?
revoked | retracted |
(revoke)
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.
(retract)
withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat
(linguistics) (of a sound ) pronounced further back in the vocal tract
As verbs the difference between revoked and retracted
is that revoked is past tense of revoke while retracted is past tense of retract.As an adjective retracted is
withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.revoked
English
Verb
(head)revoke
English
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.