'Cancel' definitions:
Definition of 'cancel'
(from WordNet)
noun
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural, cancel]
verb
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" [syn: cancel, call off, scratch, scrub]
verb
verb
Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" [syn: cancel, strike down]
verb
Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: delete, cancel]
verb
Make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets" [syn: cancel, invalidate]
Definition of 'Cancel'
From: GCIDE
- Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling.] [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. ? latticed gate. Cf. Chancel.]
- 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. [1913 Webster]
- The indentures were canceled. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. [1913 Webster]
- Canceled figures (Print), 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cancel'
From: GCIDE
- Cancel \Can"cel\, n. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cancel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abbreviate,
- abolish,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abort,
- abridge,
- abrogate,
- abrogation,
- absolve,
- accent,
- accent mark,
- accommodate,
- adjust,
- annihilate,
- annul,
- annulment,
- balance,
- bar,
- belay,
- black out,
- blot,
- blot out,
- blotting,
- blotting out,
- blue-pencil,
- bowdlerize,
- bring to naught,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- call off,
- cancel out,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- cassation,
- cease,
- censor,
- character,
- come to nothing,
- compensate,
- compensate for,
- complete,
- coordinate,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- counterpoise,
- countervail,
- cross out,
- custos,
- cut,
- cut it out,
- declare a moratorium,
- defeasance,
- dele,
- delete,
- deletion,
- deny,
- deracinate,
- desist,
- direct,
- disannul,
- discontinue,
- dispose of,
- do away with,
- dot,
- drop,
- drop it,
- drop the curtain,
- edit,
- edit out,
- efface,
- effacement,
- eliminate,
- end,
- end off,
- equalize,
- equate,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- erasure,
- even,
- even up,
- expression mark,
- expunction,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- extinguish,
- fermata,
- finalize,
- finish,
- fit,
- fold up,
- frustrate,
- get it over,
- get over with,
- get through with,
- give over,
- give the quietus,
- give up,
- halt,
- have done with,
- hold,
- integrate,
- invalidate,
- invalidation,
- kayo,
- key signature,
- kibosh,
- kill,
- knock it off,
- knock out,
- KO,
- lay off,
- lead,
- leave off,
- level,
- ligature,
- make up for,
- make void,
- mark,
- measure,
- metronomic mark,
- negate,
- negativate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- notation,
- nullification,
- nullify,
- obliterate,
- obliteration,
- offset,
- omit,
- override,
- overrule,
- pause,
- perfect,
- poise,
- polish off,
- presa,
- proportion,
- put paid to,
- quash,
- quit,
- raze,
- recall,
- recant,
- recantation,
- redeem,
- refrain,
- relinquish,
- renege,
- renounce,
- repeal,
- repudiate,
- rescind,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- retract,
- retraction,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- rub out,
- rule out,
- scrag,
- scratch,
- scratch out,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- segno,
- set aside,
- setting aside,
- shoot down,
- sign,
- signature,
- slur,
- sponge,
- sponge out,
- square,
- stay,
- stop,
- strike,
- strike a balance,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- stultify,
- surrender,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- swell,
- symbol,
- tempo mark,
- terminate,
- thwart,
- tie,
- time signature,
- undo,
- vacate,
- vacation,
- vacatur,
- vinculum,
- vitiate,
- void,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waive,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- washing out,
- wipe out,
- wiping out,
- withdraw,
- withdrawal,
- write off,
- write-off,
- zap