Cancel
['kæns(ə)l] or ['kænsl]
Definition
(verb.) make invalid for use; 'cancel cheques or tickets'.
(verb.) declare null and void; make ineffective; 'Cancel the election results'; 'strike down a law'.
(verb.) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; 'Call off the engagement'; 'cancel the dinner party'; 'we had to scrub our vacation plans'; 'scratch that meeting--the chair is ill'.
(verb.) make up for; 'His skills offset his opponent's superior strength'.
Editor: Lucia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
(v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
(v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
(v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
(v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
(v. i.) The part thus suppressed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Obliterate, efface, erase, expunge, blot, blot out, rub out, scratch out, wipe out.[2]. Abrogate, annul, repeal, rescind, revoke, abolish, nullify, quash, set aside, make void.
Checked by Irving
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Efface, blot_out, annul, expunge, nullify, quash, rescind, repeal, revoke,abrogate, obliterate, discharge, erase, abolish, countervail
ANT:Enforce, enact, re-enact, confirm, perpetuate, contract
Checker: Reginald
Definition
v.t. to erase or blot out by crossing with lines: to annul or suppress as a printed page &c.: to obliterate: to frustrate: to counterbalance or compensate for: to remove equivalent quantities on opposite sides of an equation:—pr.p. can′celling; pa.p. can′celled.—n. the suppression of a printed page or sheet the page so cancelled or the new one substituted.
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Examples
- Permission to cancel it will have to come from Madrid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You may commit in a moment what you will rue for years--what life cannot cancel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is not usual to cancel articles for any such reason. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You would not object to cancel his indentures at his request and for his good? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Oh, for enough of them to cancel her one miserable debt! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Cancel the call to planes one, he told the signaller. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But I would not cancel it, if it were in my power. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was sure now that the festival would not be cancelled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It might seem to be cancelled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In pursuance of the same act, the bank cancelled exchequer bills to the amount of ? 1,775,027: 17s: 10?d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And even if intended to be cancelled, as might possibly be supposed to be denoted by these marks of fire, it is NOT cancelled. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He would call the airfield directly and get the bombardment cancelled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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