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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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cancel


cancel is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

[2] To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." Milton.

[3] 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. A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone.

[4] To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. The indentures were canceled. Thackeray. He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott.

[5] To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.


Synonyms:

abolish
abrogate
annul
deface
destroy
efface
erase
expunge
obliterate
repeal
revoke
blot out
do away
set asid

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