1. (v. t.) To call or bring back; to rescind; to recall; as to revoke a privilege\.

2. (v. t.) 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.

3. (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

4. (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

5. (v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect.

6. (v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

7. (n.) The act of revoking.

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