revoke🔊

To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

(obsolete) To call or bring back. +

(obsolete) To hold back. +

(obsolete) To move (something) back or away. +

(obsolete) To call back to mind. +

The act of revoking in a game of cards.

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.