MEANING
1. To cancel or withdraw the force of a permission, order, right, or other formal act.
2. To fail to follow suit when the rules require doing so and the player is able to.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- revoke permission
- revoke a license
On the page
The council revoked permission before the party reached the border.
She learned that the license had been revoked during her absence.
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Word forms
- Base
- revoke
- Past tense
- revoked
- Past participle
- revoked
- Present participle
- revoking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- revoke
- Present continuous
- am/is/are revoking
- Present perfect
- have/has revoked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been revoking
- Past
- revoked
- Past continuous
- was/were revoking
- Past perfect
- had revoked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been revoking
- Future
- will revoke
- Future continuous
- will be revoking
- Future perfect
- will have revoked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been revoking
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: revoke; revokes; revoked; revoked; revoking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: revokes.
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