to call or bring back; to recall.-hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.-to hold back; to repress; to restrain.-to draw back; to withdraw.-to call back to mind; to recollect.-to fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.-the act of revoking.