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revoke
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revoke as in:  revoked his privileges

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    They might revoke our license to travel.  (source)
    revoke = cancel (take back)
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    For the next year, Hans was lucky that he didn't revoke his membership application officially.†  (source)
    revoke = void, cancel, or take back
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    I, James Donovan Halliday, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this instrument to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills and codicils by me at any time heretofore made....†  (source)
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    The earlier revision has been revoked.†  (source)
    revoked = cancelled
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    They're probably going to revoke your license, but even if they don't, I will, if you do it again.†  (source)
    revoke = void, cancel, or take back
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    If you don't turn that boat around and return to this island immediately, you will be found in violation of Section 509 of the Uniform Maritime Act, you will be subject to revocation of license, penalties in excess of fifty thousand dollars, and five years in jail.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Creativity or the lack of it had no bearing on these things; to do them was as foolish as issuing a proclamation revoking the law of gravity or trying to play table-tennis with a brick.†  (source)
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    We know that we have introduced a change of direction in his course which is already carrying him out of his orbit around he Enemy; but he must be made to imagine that all the choices which have effected this change of course are trivial and revocable.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    But if he revokes the laws he has made and tacks and comes about till the ship is on her beam ends, then finally we will be forced to cut the hawser.†  (source)
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    Hear, all ye Angels, progeny of light, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand.†  (source)
    unrevoked = not cancelled
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrevoked means not and reverses the meaning of revoked. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I was eating bananas in Raleigh, North Carolina, I thought, thinking this not for the first time since I had known Sophie, yet perhaps for the first time in my life aware of the meaning of the Absurd, and its conclusive, unrevocable horror.†  (source)
    unrevocable = not capable of being voided, cancelled, or taken back
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrevocable means not and reverses the meaning of revocable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    , a tormenting and industrious king, whose policy it was to maintain the elasticity of his power by frequent appointments and revocations.†  (source)
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    She finds herself hating them, just as she hated the headmaster that day he tried to explain why her membership in the human race had been revoked.†  (source)
    revoked = cancelled
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