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revoke
To fail to follow suit in cards when required and able to do so.
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  1. To fail to follow suit in cards when required and able to do so.
  2. To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling:
  3. To withdraw, repeal, rescind, cancel, or annul (a law, permit, etc.)
repeal
The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The act of annulling a law.
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  1. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The act of annulling a law.
  2. To revoke or rescind, especially by the action of a legislature.
  3. To withdraw officially or formally; revoke; cancel; annul
cancel
To blot out, deface, mark off, perforate, destroy, or otherwise physically alter a writing to render it void.
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  1. To blot out, deface, mark off, perforate, destroy, or otherwise physically alter a writing to render it void.
  2. To print or stamp marks on (a postage stamp) as by machine or handstamp, to prevent reuse
  3. To offset or cancel each other
lift
To become raised or elevated; go up
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  1. To become raised or elevated; go up
  2. To yield to upward pressure:
  3. To perform cosmetic surgery on (the face, for example), especially in order to remove wrinkles or sagging skin.
recall
To cancel, take back, or revoke:
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  1. To cancel, take back, or revoke:
  2. To request return of (a product) to the manufacturer, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.
  3. To call back; ask or order to return; specif., to ask purchasers to return (an imperfect or dangerous product), often so that a manufacturing defect can be corrected
repeal
The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The act of annulling a law.
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  1. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The annullment of an existing law by the enactment of a new law. If the new law declares the old law to be revoked, the repeal is express. If the new law has provisions that contradict the old law so that both cannot logically exist together, the new law takes precedence and the repeal is implied. The act of annulling a law.
  2. To revoke or rescind, especially by the action of a legislature.
  3. (Obsolete) To summon back or recall, especially from exile.
reverse
To direct that (a charge) apply to the person receiving instead of making a telephone call.
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  1. To direct that (a charge) apply to the person receiving instead of making a telephone call.
  2. To put a motor, engine, etc. in reverse; reverse the action of a mechanism
  3. To turn inside out or upside down:
revoke
(Card Games) To fail to follow suit when required and able to do so; renege
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  1. (Card Games) To fail to follow suit when required and able to do so; renege
  2. To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling:
  3. (Now Rare) To recall
Find another word for rescind. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rescind, like: revoke, repeal, cancel, abolish, cancel, revoke, lift, recall, repeal, reverse and revoke.

Sentence Examples

  • As a preliminary to negotiation, the government was required to rescind all the obnoxious measures.

  • The Resolutioners, or supporters of the resolution to rescind that act, were opposed by the Protesters, the rigid adherents to the strictest interpretation of the Covenant.

  • For more than a year all efforts - headed by the poet Whittier - to rescind that censure were without avail, but early in 1874 it was annulled.

  • On the 26th of July a mob invaded the House of Commons and obliged it to rescind the ordinance re-establishing the old parliamentary committee of militia; Lenthall was held in the chair by main force and compelled to put to the vote a resolution inviting the king to London.

  • Further, the establishment of a protectorate does not necessarily rescind treaties made between the protected state and other states, at all events when it is not in reality conquest or cession, or when any modification would be to the injury of third parties (Pail.

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