Another word for revoke
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Verb
To take back or remove
- Turned backward in position, direction, or order:
- Moving, acting, or organized in a manner contrary to the usual:
- Causing backward movement:
- To make void; repeal or annul.
- To revoke or rescind, especially by the action of a legislature.
- To summon back or recall, especially from exile.
- The act or process of repealing.
- To ask or order to return:
- To remember; recollect:
- To be reminiscent of; seem similar to:
- To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise:
- To transport by air:
- To revoke by taking back; rescind:
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Another word for revoke
Verb
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- To make a formal retraction or disavowal of (a statement or belief to which one has previously committed oneself).
- To make a formal retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or belief.
- An order (command) made in opposition to a previous one.
- To cancel or reverse (a previously issued command or order).
- To recall by a contrary order:
- An order or command reversing another one.
- Turned backward in position, direction, or order:
- Moving, acting, or organized in a manner contrary to the usual:
- Causing backward movement:
- To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate:
- To renounce under oath; forswear.
- To declare untrue; assert to be false:
- To refuse to believe; reject:
- To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow:
- To end the employment or service of; discharge.
- To direct or allow to leave:
- To stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel:
- To refuse to acknowledge or accept as one's own; repudiate.
- To cease to occupy (a lodging or place); leave:
- To cease to hold (a job or position):
- To make void or annul (an erroneous lower court decision):
- To annul or put an end to (a court order, indictment, or court proceedings).
- (idiomatic) To destroy (a large number of people or things); to obliterate.
- To physically erase something written.
- To do away with; to cause to disappear
- To remove or destroy completely so as to leave no trace.
- To render invisible or unreadable, as by erasing or marking over:
- To remove completely (a body organ or part), as by surgery, disease, or radiation.
- To erase, delete, or strike out:
- To eliminate completely; wipe out:
- To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping.
- To remove (recorded material) from a magnetic tape or other storage medium:
- To remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk, for example):
- To reverse or erase; annul:
- To untie, disassemble, or loosen:
- To open (a parcel, for example); unwrap.
- To move from a place or position occupied:
- To transfer or convey from one place to another:
- To take off:
- To make ineffective or invalid; nullify:
- To make negative:
- To perform the machine logic operation NOT gate.
- To do away with; put an end to; annul:
- To destroy completely.
- To make invalid; nullify.
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- To make null; invalidate.
- To counteract the force or effectiveness of.
- To take back or away; remove:
- To cause to leave or return:
- To remove (money) from an account.
- To reject the validity or authority of:
- To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust:
- To refuse to recognize or pay:
- To give up (a title or possession, for example), especially by formal announcement.
- To decide or declare that one will no longer adhere to (a belief or position); reject.
- To decide or declare that one will no longer engage in (a practice) or use (something):
- To deny or renounce any claim to or connection with; disown:
- To deny the validity of; repudiate:
- To decline to accept responsibility for; decline to make any warranty for.
- To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority:
- To make void; repeal or annul.
- To revoke or rescind, especially by the action of a legislature.
- To summon back or recall, especially from exile.
- The act or process of repealing.
- To make or declare void or invalid, as a marriage or a law; nullify.
- To bring to an end the effect or existence of; cancel out:
- To annul or invalidate:
- To decide or announce that (a planned or scheduled event) will not take place, especially with no intention of holding it at a later time:
- To cross out with lines or other markings.
- To take back; disavow:
- To draw back or in:
- To utter (a sound) with the tongue drawn back.
- To ask or order to return:
- To remember; recollect:
- To be reminiscent of; seem similar to:
See also:
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