Cancel Definition
kănsəl
canceled, canceling, cancelled, cancelling, cancels
verb
canceled, canceling, cancelled, cancelling, cancels
To offset or cancel each other.
Webster's New World
To decide or announce that (a planned or scheduled event) will not take place, especially with no intention of holding it at a later time.
Cancel a picnic; cancel a soccer game.
American Heritage
To cross out with lines or other marks, as in deleting written matter or marking a check as used and cleared.
Webster's New World
To make invalid; annul.
Webster's New World
To print or stamp marks on (a postage stamp) as by machine or handstamp, to prevent reuse.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
cancels
The act or an instance of canceling; a cancellation.
American Heritage
The deletion or omission of matter in type or in print.
Webster's New World
The matter omitted or deleted.
Webster's New World
The replacement for this.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
Origin of Cancel
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From Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”), from Latin cancellare (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancelli (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English cancellen from Old French canceller from Latin cancellāre to cross out from cancellus lattice diminutive of cancer lattice
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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