revoke
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ɹɪˈvəʊk/|/rɪˈvəʊk/
美 /ɹɪˈvoʊk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act of revoking in a game of cards.
— Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
- 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.
动词 v.
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To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
— Your driver's license will be revoked.
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To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
— They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof.
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To call or bring back.
— So well he did his busie paines apply, That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe, To her fraile mansion of mortality.
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To hold back.
— Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,
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To move (something) back or away.
— A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke, And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke, Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke.
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To call back to mind.
— late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132, A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
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