Word Meanings - CANCEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;

Additional info about word: CANCEL

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish. (more info) lattice, to strike or cross out fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. 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. "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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CANCEL)

• Abrogate
• Abolish
• cancel
• set aside
• annul
• repeal
• expunge
• rescind
• Annul
• Cancel
• obliterate
• make void
• quash
• nullify
• revoke
• destroy
• abrogate
• extinguish
• abolish
• Blot out
• Erase
• efface
• wipe out
• Bury
• Inter
• inhume
• conceal
• repress
• suppress
• entomb
• compose
• hush
• Efface
• eradicate
• blot out

Related words: (words related to CANCEL)

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  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTERIM
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• INTERIOR
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• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• INTERRADIAL
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• INTERHEMAL; INTERHAEMAL
  Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.
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• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• INTERVENE
  A coming between; intervention; meeting. Sir H. Wotton.
• INTERNATIONAL
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• INTERCOMMON
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  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• DISINTERESTING
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• INTERMEDDLE
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  A certain old dance. Halliwell.