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Definition of revoke : 1. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.
2. The act of revoking.
3. To call back to mind; to recollect.
4. To call or bring back; to recall.
5. To draw back; to withdraw.
6. To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
7. To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Synonyms:

nobble, take back, hoist, exterminate, remove, set aside, tump over, arise, give up, wind, law, renounce, airlift, erase, renege, stamp out, filch, subvert, make, revolutionise, hook, abrogate, revolutionize, change by reversal, elevate, face-lift, bowl over, upset, go up, extirpate, lift, vacate, purloin, reverse, snarf, pilfer, rescind, rise, end, resign, turn over, invert, declare null and void, overturn, cabbage, void, repeal, plagiarise, sneak, tip over, swipe, move up, rustle, supplant, countermand, bring up, counterorder, overthrow, plagiarize, bring down, get up, uprise, pinch, override, terminate, turn, abate, abandon, avoid, expunge, knock over, quash, wipe out, overrule, come up, disown, abstract, turn back, annihilate, rear, abjure, prohibit, raise, empty, continue

delete, efface, divorce, eradicate, dismiss, refute, disavow, extinguish, eliminate, neutralize, repudiate, disaffirm, veto, obliterate, abnegate, negate, deny, withdraw, nullify, destroy, cancel, abolish, reject, retract, invalidate, undo, disclaim, annul, dissolve

retain, recant, suppress, withhold, recall, reserve, keep, hold

Usage examples:

• I had angrily commanded her to leave me because she had urged me to revoke the command to turn back. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• And as for this desire of yours, you had as good desire me to make a new Bible, and so to revoke my first sayings by the mouth of my prophets. - "The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3", John Bunyan.
• In fact they did everything to make the king revoke his order. - "Vikram-and-the-Vampire-Classic-Hindu-Tales-of-Adventure-Magic-and-Romance", Burton, Isabel, Lady.