cancel — OAT · Shobdo

cancel

verb

1 the game was canceled due to a frozen field:

call off, abandon, scrap, drop;

postpone, mothball;

informal scrub, scratch, axe, nix;

North American, informal redline.

2 his visa had been canceled | you must inform the bank in writing if you wish to cancel this instruction:

annul, invalidate, nullify, declare null and void, render null and void, void;

revoke, rescind, retract, countermand, set aside, take back, withdraw, recall, repeal, overrule, override, abrogate, quash;

extinguish, remit, retire;

Law vacate, discharge;

rare disannul, negate.

3 rising unemployment had canceled out the earlier economic gains:

neutralize, counterbalance, counteract, balance (out), countervail;

negate, nullify, wipe out;

offset, compensate for, make up for;

rare negative, counterweigh.

4 there is one paragraph that should be canceled:

delete, cross out, strike out, put a line through, blue-pencil, scratch out, obliterate, blot out, cut out, expunge, efface, erase, rub out, eradicate, eliminate;

British, trademark Tippex out;

technical dele.