1. revoke - Noun
2. revoke - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
Erect I make a resolution; prone I revoke it. Emil Cioran
What's kept at home you cancel by a stroke: What's sent abroad you never can revoke. John Conington
Radical and revolutionary movements seek not to revise but to revoke. The target of revocation should be obvious. The target is politics itself. Karl Hess
He revoked the ban on smoking Source: Internet
lift an embargo Source: Internet