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Another word for cancel

Verb

  1. To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean

    2. See also:

    continue

  2. To put an end to, especially formally and with authority

    3. See also:

    continue

  3. To decide not to go ahead with (something previously arranged)

    4. See also:

    continue

  4. To make ineffective by applying an opposite force or amount

    5. See also:

    action

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Another word for cancel

Verb

  1. To mark out

    2. See also:

    remove

    eliminate

    Antonyms:

  2. To make void

    3. See also:

    revoke

    discard

    abolish

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

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

  • "These cancel out your thermal signature," he said, holding them out.

  • Or, I can cancel, and we can live out the—" "No, thanks," she said, standing and all but bolting out of his suite.

  • 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.

  • This result, while it does not afford any means of determining the parallaxes of individual stars, enables us to determine the mean parallax of a group of stars, if we may assume their peculiar motions practically to cancel one another.

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