Rescind vs. Revoke — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Rescind and Revoke
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Definitions
Rescind
To make void; repeal or annul.
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.
Rescind
(transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.
Revoke
To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling
Her license was revoked.
Rescind
(transitive) To cut away or off.
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Revoke
To fail to follow suit in cards when required and able to do so.
Rescind
To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs.
Revoke
Failure to follow suit in a card game when required and able to do so.
Rescind
Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.
Revoke
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
Your driver's license will be revoked.
I hereby revoke all former wills.
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Rescind
Annul by recalling or rescinding;
He revoked the ban on smoking
Lift an embargo
Vacate a death sentence
Revoke
(intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
Revoke
(obsolete) To call or bring back.
Revoke
(obsolete) To hold back.
Revoke
(obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
Revoke
(obsolete) To call back to mind.
Revoke
The act of revoking in a game of cards.
Revoke
A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
Revoke
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.
Revoke
To call or bring back; to recall.
The faint sprite he did revoke again,To her frail mansion of morality.
Revoke
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.
Revoke
To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
Revoke
To draw back; to withdraw.
Revoke
To call back to mind; to recollect.
A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience.
Revoke
To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
Revoke
The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.
Revoke
The mistake of not following suit when able to do so
Revoke
Fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
Revoke
Annul by recalling or rescinding;
He revoked the ban on smoking
Lift an embargo
Vacate a death sentence