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  • English Word Revocation Definition The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.
  • English Word Revocatory Definition Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.
  • English Word Revoice Definition To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.
  • English Word Revoke Definition To call or bring back; to recall.
  • English Word Revoke Definition 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.
  • English Word Revoke Definition To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • English Word Revoke Definition To draw back; to withdraw.
  • English Word Revoke Definition To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • English Word Revoke Definition To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
  • English Word Revoke Definition The act of revoking.
  • English Word Revoked Definition of Revoke
  • English Word Revokement Definition Revocation.
  • English Word Revoker Definition One who revokes.
  • English Word Revoking Definition of Revoke
  • English Word Revokingly Definition By way of revocation.
  • English Word Revolt Definition To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  • English Word Revolt Definition Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
  • English Word Revolt Definition To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
  • English Word Revolt Definition To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  • English Word Revolt Definition To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
  • English Word Revolt Definition The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
  • English Word Revolt Definition A revolter.
  • English Word Revolted Definition of Revolt
  • English Word Revolter Definition One who revolts.
  • English Word Revolting Definition of Revolt
  • English Word Revolting Definition Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.
  • English Word Revoluble Definition Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving.
  • English Word Revolute Definition Rolled backward or downward.
  • English Word Revolution Definition The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
  • English Word Revolution Definition Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.