revoke

verb

ri-ˈvōk How to pronounce revoke (audio)
Definition of revokenext
as in to cancel
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) the judge revoked the jail sentence when the defendant promised to do community service instead

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Recent Examples of revoke However, experts said revoking a visa alone may have little impact on someone already in the country. — María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 According to Kostabi, the company investigated and found that a former employee's credentials had never been revoked. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 According to Tina Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Meghan’s casting was revoked after a wave of public criticism. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 24 Aug. 2026 Nostalgia, or nationalistic pride, or giving kids names of planets to remember aren;t sufficient reasons to revoke the original IAU decision. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for revoke
Recent Examples of Synonyms for revoke
  1. cancel
  2. abandon
  3. scrap
  4. rescind
  5. abort
  6. repeal
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  • If the league and union can’t agree on a new contract by some time in March, some regular-season games likely would be canceled.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Another, who said a relative's upcoming interview had been canceled, described feeling confused and upset by what appeared to be an embassy-wide hold.
    — María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of cancel
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  • Financing expires, talent moves on, and production slates are abandoned.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • At an event overflowing with seven-figure hypercars and extreme technology, the car that exploded onto social media was one built around ideas that most of the industry has abandoned.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of abandon
Verb
  • Three Saudi companies have scrapped plans for initial public offerings that were scheduled over the next month because of expectations of weak investor demand as the Iran war weighs on sentiment, according to people familiar with the matter.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The Venice Film Festival is weighing scrapping its traditional opening jury press conference on the Lido.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of scrap
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  • Not to mention, few studios have purchased cinemas even after the Department of Justice rescinded the 1948 Paramount Consent Decrees, which previously disallowed studios from owning movie theater chains.
    — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier this month, the WNBA rescinded a technical foul called against Caitlin Clark, sparing her from what would have been a automatic one-game suspension for her eight technical of the season.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of rescind
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  • The production of some vaccines involves growing viruses in human cell cultures from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Teenage e-bikers on an Oakland County airport runway last week forced a pilot to abort his landing, taking the potential perils of e-bike misuse to a whole new level.
    — Susan Bromley, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of abort
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  • That includes prohibiting the construction of AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods, reducing the impacts of data centers on local communities, and repealing sales tax exemptions and other incentives.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • According to correspondence reviewed by ProPublica, the Joint Staff disagreed with the Army acting secretary, who said in a February 2025 memo that the program was redundant and recommended Congress repeal the law that set it in motion.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of repeal

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“Revoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revoke. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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