Revoke

(noun.) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so.

(verb.) cancel officially; 'He revoked the ban on smoking'; 'lift an embargo'; 'vacate a death sentence'.

(verb.) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so.

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• Well, at any rate, I revoke what I said this morning--that you Milton people did not reverence the past. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Should he apply directly to Mr. Brooke, and demand of that troublesome gentleman to revoke his proposal? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In making it, he revoked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But on the morning of that day Lydgate had to learn that Rosamond had revoked his order to Borthrop Trumbull. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The Lord said, Move on, thou, likewise, and the command has never been revoked from that day to this. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The two men revoked one another. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was as if he were a beam of essential enmity, a beam of light that did not only destroy her, but denied her altogether, revoked her whole world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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