Definitions for cancel

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cancel can·cel

Spelling: [kan-suh l]

IPA: /ˈkæn səl/

Cancel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in cancel (acceln).

Definitions for cancel

noun

1. an act of canceling.
2. Printing, Bookbinding. omission. a replacement for an omitted part.

verb (used with object)

1. to make void; revoke; annul:
2. to decide or announce that a planned event will not take place; call off:
3. to mark or perforate (a postage stamp, admission ticket, etc.) so as to render invalid for reuse.
4. to neutralize; counterbalance; compensate for:
5. Accounting. to close (an account) by crediting or paying all outstanding charges: to eliminate or offset (a debit, credit, etc.) with an entry for an equal amount on the opposite side of a ledger, as when a payment is received on a debt.
6. Mathematics. to eliminate by striking out a factor common to both the denominator and numerator of a fraction, equivalent terms on opposite sides of an equation, etc.
7. to cross out (words, letters, etc.) by drawing a line over the item.
8. Printing. to omit.

verb (used without object)

1. to counterbalance or compensate for one another; become neutralized (often followed by out):
2. Mathematics. (of factors common to both the denominator and numerator of a fraction, certain terms on opposite sides of an equation, etc.) to be equivalent; to allow cancellation.

Origin of cancel

1350-1400; Middle English cancellen Medieval Latin cancellāre to cross out, Latin: to make like a lattice, derivative of cancellī grating, plural of cancellus; see c

Examples for cancel

The money-order I am enclosing with this, will cancel the note, but not the many debts, I owe you.

My family is ready to mount an intervention, and cancel my streaming accounts.

Refuse us that, and you cancel the articles; cancel the articles, and you cancel our services with them.

Should we cancel gatherings, reunions, excursions, or throw ourselves into them with even more gratitude for one another?

I cancel the oath now, for the knowledge of it should survive his life and mine.

In a statement, the MoD admitted that it had been forced to cancel the rest of the training program.

Did he participate in his own extortion and cancel his plans for a big Christmas premiere?

Nobody seems to know what to do, so they just sit down and cancel everything.

Presumably, without those subsidies, most will just cancel their policies.

If he can find me another tenant, whom I consider suitable, I may cancel the agreement.