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What is the verb for revocation?

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revoke
  1. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
  2. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  3. (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  4. (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  5. (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
  6. (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Users with a grantable privilege can only revoke privileges they have granted and chains they have caused.”
revocate
  1. To recall (troops, objects, etc)
revocated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of revocate
revoked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of revoke
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In fact a certificate of authenticity written on the letterhead of the construction company has been revoked.”
      “People such as yourselves ought to have the right to vote revoked immediately!”
      “Potato producers who abstract water from Pembrokeshire's rivers and streams could have their licences revoked by new European legislation.”
revocating
  1. present participle of revocate
revoking
  1. present participle of revoke
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “From the given facts we know Wen had facsimiled a letter to Jo revoking his offer before Jo received the letter and replied to it.”
      “It was rumored that certificates were issued to those who were sure to vote in favor of revoking the charter.”
      “On April 1, 1628, a second patent was issued to Carlisle, revoking that of Pembroke, and Charles Wolverton was appointed Governor of Barbados.”
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