Usually means: Withdraws or cancels formally or officially.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. revokes: Merriam-Webster
  2. revokes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. revokes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Revokes, revokes: Wordnik
  5. revokes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. revokes: Wiktionary
  7. revokes: Dictionary.com
  8. revokes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. revokes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. revokes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. revokes: Encyclopedia

(Note: See revoke as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (revoke)

verb:  (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
verb:  (obsolete) To call or bring back.
verb:  (obsolete) To hold back.
verb:  (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
verb:  (obsolete) To call back to mind.
noun:  The act of revoking in a game of cards.
noun:  A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
noun:  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.
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