Definition of "deauthorize" []

• To revoke permission, sanction or consent. (verb)

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• "He added that EA is expediting the development of a system that will allow customers to "deauthorize" computers and move the game to new machines, without needing to call the company."
• "While I did figure it out on my own, it was not clearly indicated why I was getting that rather sternly worded warning and I can see someone who isn't particularly familiar with electronic devices getting a little anxious about clicking "deauthorize" and possibly even calling tech support over it."
• "At a time when literary blogs do indeed show an increasing ability to "deauthorize" academic criticism as it has established itself over the past fifty years, it would be a shame if the cleavage in contemporary literary criticism -- between academic critics on the one hand and practicing poets and novelists on the other -- were to be permanently hardened with little space in between for critics who want to write about literature but who don't ultimately consider themselves either "scholars" or poets."