cancel

To decide that a planned event, arrangement, order, or service will not happen or continue.

Etymology

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French canceller, from Latin cancellare, meaning “to cross out,” from cancelli, “lattice, grating.”

Collocations

To make something legally or officially no longer valid or effective.

Etymology

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French canceller, from Latin cancellare, meaning “to cross out,” from cancelli, “lattice, grating.”

Collocations

To neutralize, offset, or remove the effect of something; in mathematics, to remove equal factors or terms from both sides of an expression.

Etymology

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French canceller, from Latin cancellare, meaning “to cross out,” from cancelli, “lattice, grating.”

Collocations

To publicly reject or stop supporting a person, organization, or work, especially because of something considered offensive or unacceptable.

Etymology

From the older sense “to annul or call off,” extended in modern usage to social approval and public support.

Collocations

A mark made on a postage stamp or document to show that it has been used or made invalid.

Etymology

From the verb cancel, originally referring to crossing out or marking something as invalid.

Collocations