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# revoke

«revoke» in Mova's school dictionary: **To officially cancel a law, permission, licence or decision** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (revoke, revokes, revoked, revoking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To officially cancel a law, permission, licence or decision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#m1)

2) (cards) To fail to follow suit when you could, breaking a rule. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In law and adult life a driving licence or passport can be revoked. In school, privileges can be revoked for bad behaviour. Phrases: «revoke a licence», «revoke permission», «revoke a ban».

### examples

- The judge revoked his driving licence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#x1)
- The school revoked our right to play football at lunch for a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#x2)
- The country revoked the old law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#x3)
- Her visa was revoked when she broke the rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#x4)
- The king revoked his order and freed the prisoner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#x5)
- You can revoke an app's permission to use your camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: revoked. Noun: «revocation». Formal; «cancel» or «take away» are everyday. Very close to «repeal», but «repeal» is used for laws by a parliament.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revoke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revoke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.