Crossword Dictionary

CANCEL

cancel, strike down - v 
declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" 

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Synonyms

abandon, abort, call, call off, cry off, drop, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke, scrap, scrub

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Examples

Of course he wasn't going to cancel a business trip simply because she didn't want him to go.

I been casting my ballot that way since Roosevelt and I'll keep doing so—even if you do cancel out my vote every dang election.

That's generally the time in which travelers can cancel existing reservations without being penalized, and the time when cruise lines know how many cabins they have left to fill.

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Etymology

late 14c., "cross out with lines, draw lines across (something written) so as to deface," from Anglo-French and Old French canceler, from Latin cancellare "to make like a lattice," which in Late Latin took on especially a sense "cross out something written" by marking it with crossed lines, from cancelli, plural of *cancellus (n.) "lattice, grating," diminutive of cancer "crossed bars, a lattice," a variant of carcer "prison" (see incarceration).

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