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
When people in authority revoke something such as a licence, a law, or an agreement, they cancel it. The government revoked her husband's license to operate migrant labor crews. + revocation revo·ca·tion The Montserrat government announced its revocation of 311 banking licences. to officially state that a law, decision, or agreement is no longer effective revocation (revoquer, from revocare )
(2 syl ) When a player at cards can follow suit, but plays some other card, he makes a revoke, and by the laws of whist the adversaries are entitled to score three points “Good heaven! Revoke? Remember, if the set Be lost, in honour you should pay the debt ” Crabbe: Borough Revulsion (in philosophy) Part of a substance set off and formed into a distinct existence; as when a slip is cut from a tree and planted to form a distinct plant of itself Tertullian the Montanist taught that the second person of the Trinity was a revulsion of the Father (Latin, revulsio, re-vello, to pull back )
to fail to follow suit when you actually hold one or more cards in the suit led This is a violation of bridge rules The Cards in Your Hand Honors -- Ace, King, Queen, Jack (and sometimes Ten)
{i} failure to play a card of the proper suit when it is possible to do so (Cards); cancellation, annulment, retraction, act of revoking
To recall a power or authority previously conferred, or annul, repeal, rescind or cancel privileges or registration In the case of Commodity Futures Trading Commission registration proceedings, to take away a previously granted registration
the mistake of not following suit when able to do so annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
The play of a card of another suit by a player who is able to follow suit or to comply with a lead penalty
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