Word Meanings - RESCIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cut off; to abrogate; to annul. The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. Jer. Taylor. 2. Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or

Additional info about word: RESCIND

1. To cut off; to abrogate; to annul. The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. Jer. Taylor. 2. Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment. Syn. -- To revoke; repeal; abrogate; annul; recall; reverse; vacate; void.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESCIND)

• Abrogate
• Abolish
• cancel
• set aside
• annul
• repeal
• expunge
• rescind
• Annul
• Cancel
• obliterate
• make void
• quash
• nullify
• revoke
• destroy
• abrogate
• extinguish
• abolish
• Efface
• blot out
• discharge
• erase
• countervail
• Repeal
• reappellare
• turn back
• recal
• reverse
• discontinue
• Revoke
• Recal
• withdraw
• declare void

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESCIND)

• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range

Related words: (words related to RESCIND)

• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• 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.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• 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;
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• ANNULOID
  Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
• EFFACE
  1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy,
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.