# Revoke an Accreditation

## Revoke a Verifiable Accreditation.

> This endpoint revokes a given Verifiable Accreditation. As input, it can take the didUrl as a string. The StatusList2021 or BitstringStatusList resource should already be setup in the VC and \`credentialStatus\` property present in the VC.

```json
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```