revoke
to call back or cancel
Roots
Other words with the voc / vok root
- advocate: to support or argue for
- equivocal: ambiguous or deliberately unclear
- equivocate: to speak ambiguously or avoid commitment
- evoke: to call forth or bring to mind
- provocative: reaction-calling or deliberately stirring
- vocabulary: the words known or used by someone
- vocal: relating to the voice
Revoke is call-back as cancellation: the permission gets pulled back.
The board revoked the license after the evidence became impossible to ignore.