Retract vs. Revoke

Retractverb

(transitive) To pull back inside.

Retractverb

(ambitransitive) To draw back; to draw up.

Retractverb

(transitive) To take back or withdraw something one has said.

Retractverb

To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.

Retractverb

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

Retractverb

To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.

Retractverb

To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.

Retractverb

To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.

Retractverb

To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.

Retractnoun

The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

Retractverb

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;

Retractverb

pull away from a source of disgust or fear

Retractverb

use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

Retractverb

pull inward or towards a center;

Revokeverb

(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing

Revokeverb

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

Revokeverb

(obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.

Revokeverb

(obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Revokeverb

(obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.

Revokeverb

(obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.

Revokenoun

The act of revoking in a game of cards.

Revokenoun

A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.

Revokenoun

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.

Revokeverb

To call or bring back; to recall.

Revokeverb

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.

Revokeverb

To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Revokeverb

To draw back; to withdraw.

Revokeverb

To call back to mind; to recollect.

Revokeverb

To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

Revokenoun

The act of revoking.

Revokenoun

the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

Revokeverb

fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

Revokeverb

annul by recalling or rescinding;

Revoke

In trick-taking card games, a revoke (or renege, or ) is a violation of the rules regarding the play of tricks serious enough to render the round invalid. A revoke is a violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, and is considered a minor offense when unintentional.