different between overthrow vs revoke

English

Pronunciation

• Verb senses:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v??????/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v????o?/
  • Rhymes: -??
• Noun senses:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?????/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v????o?/
• Hyphenation: over?throw

Etymology 1

From Middle English overthrowen, equivalent to over- +? throw. Compare Dutch overdraaien, German überdrehen, Old English oferweorpan (“to overthrow”).

For the noun sense, compare Middle English overthrow, overthrowe (“destruction, downfall”), from the verb.

Verb

overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)

1. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
2. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.

Derived terms

• overthrowable
• overthrowal
• overthrower

Translations

Noun

overthrow (plural overthrows)

1. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
2. (archaic, rare) An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.

Hypernyms

• downfall

Coordinate terms

• collapse

Translations

Etymology 2

over- +? throw.

Verb

overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.

Translations

Noun

overthrow (plural overthrows)

1. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
   1. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.

Translations

References

Further reading

• overthrow (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• throw over

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

revoke (third-person singular simple present revokes, present participle revoking, simple past and past participle revoked)

1. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
   • 1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16,^[1]

     The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 1,^[2]

     […] If, on the tenth day following,

     Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions,

     The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,

     This shall not be revok’d.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 124-128,^[3]

     I formd them free, and free they must remain,

     Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change

     Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree

     Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d

     Thir freedom,

2. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22,^[4]

     They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof.

3. (obsolete) To call or bring back.

   Synonym: recall

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 6, Canto 3, p. 392,^[5]

     So well he did his busie paines apply,

     That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe,

     To her fraile mansion of mortality.

4. (obsolete) To hold back.

   Synonyms: repress, restrain

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 2, p. 213,^[6]

     Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad,

     Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,

5. (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.

   Synonyms: draw back, withdraw

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 566,^[7]

     A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke,

     And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate

     And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke,

     Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke.

6. (obsolete) To call back to mind.

   Synonyms: recollect, remember

   • late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132,^[8]

     A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.

Related terms

• revocation

Translations

Noun

revoke (plural revokes)

1. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
   • 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102)

     Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!

2. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
3. 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• evoker