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Meaning of 'cancel' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cancel [ v. i.]
- To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
- To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
- 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.
- To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
- To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
- An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- The part thus suppressed.

Meaning of 'cancel' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cancel [ v]
Meaning (1):
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
Example in sentence:
  • Call off the engagement;
  • cancel the dinner party;
  • scratch that meeting--the chair is ill;
  • we had to scrub our vacation plans
Meaning (2):
- make invalid for use
Example in sentence:
  • cancel cheques or tickets
Meaning (3):
- declare null and void; make ineffective
Example in sentence:
  • Cancel the election results;
  • strike down a law
Meaning (4):
- make up for
Example in sentence:
  • His skills offset his opponent's superior strength
Meaning (5):
- remove or make invisible
Example in sentence:
  • Please delete my name from your list

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