Need another word that means the same as “cancel”? Find 23 synonyms and 30 related words for “cancel” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Cancel” are: strike down, offset, set off, delete, invalidate, call off, scratch, scrub, abandon, scrap, drop, annul, nullify, declare null and void, render null and void, void, neutralize, counterbalance, counteract, balance, balance out, countervail, natural
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “cancel” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| natural | A sign denoting a natural note when a previous sign or the key signature would otherwise demand a sharp or a flat. Perky musical accompaniment would seem a natural for this series. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “cancel” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| abandon | Leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return. He had clearly abandoned all pretence of trying to succeed. |
| annul | Declare (a marriage) to have had no legal existence. Her first marriage was finally annulled by His Holiness. |
| balance | Bring into balance or equilibrium. He balanced his radical remarks with more familiar declarations. |
| balance out | Be in equilibrium. |
| call off | Challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense. |
| counteract | Oppose or check by a counteraction. Should we deliberately intervene in the climate system to counteract global warming. |
| counterbalance | Contrast with equal weight or force. The sitter s weight counterbalances the tilting pressure on the backrest. |
| countervail | Compensate for or counterbalance. Stereotypes are countervailed by more realistic assessments. |
| declare null and void | Declare to be. |
| delete | Remove (a product, especially a recording) from the catalogue of those available for purchase. The passage was deleted. |
| drop | Score a goal by a drop kick. She dropped a remark about having been included in the selection. |
| invalidate | Show to be invalid. A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination. |
| neutralize | Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions. Impatience at his frailty began to neutralize her fear. |
| nullify | Declare invalid. Insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training. |
| offset | Produce by offset printing. There was some offsetting on to text. |
| render null and void | To surrender someone or something to another. |
| scrap | Discard or remove from service a redundant old or inoperative vehicle vessel or machine especially so as to convert it to scrap metal. These two fellows are always scrapping over something. |
| scratch | Play a record using the scratch technique. Scratch that meeting the chair is ill. |
| scrub | (of a driver) reduce (speed) by allowing the tyres to slide or scrape across the road surface. The doctor scrubbed up and donned a protective gown. |
| set off | Bear fruit. |
| strike down | Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line. |
| void | Excrete or discharge from the body. Void a plea. |
| abolish | Do away with. Slavery was abolished in the mid 19th century in America and in Russia. |
| abrogate | Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement. A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike. |
| abrogation | The repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement. |
| annihilate | Destroy utterly; obliterate. Mesons are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other. |
| annul | Declare invalid. The contract was annulled. |
| annulment | (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc. Grounds for an annulment. |
| backdown | A retraction of a previously held position. Ministers have avoided sounding triumphal about the association s backdown. |
| cancellation | The act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement. All cancellations on documents must be made indelibly. |
| delete | A command or key on a computer which erases text. You can use delete to remove a number of lines from your program. |
| exterminate | Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many. They use poison to exterminate moles. |
| invalidate | Make invalid for use. A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination. |
| negate | Make (a clause, sentence, or proposition) negative in meaning. This action will negate the effect of my efforts. |
| neutralize | Make politically neutral and thus inoffensive. Impatience at his frailty began to neutralize her fear. |
| nullify | Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of. Judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions. |
| off | Located on the side of a vehicle that is normally furthest from the kerb offside. Tell them the wedding s off. |
| offset | Produce by offset printing. Offset deposits and withdrawals. |
| override | The act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something. You can override the cut out by releasing the switch. |
| recantation | A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion. Every writer interprets Galileo s recantation in a different way. |
| repeal | Revoke or annul (a law or act of parliament. The House voted in favour of repeal. |
| reschedule | Change the time of (a planned event. We had to reschedule the doctor s appointment. |
| rescind | Revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement. The government eventually rescinded the directive. |
| rescission | (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made. The plaintiff agreed to the rescission of the agreement. |
| retraction | The act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back. The retraction of the landing gear. |
| revocable | Capable of being revoked or annulled. A revocable settlement. |
| revocation | The state of being cancelled or annulled. 16 of parole revocations were due to drug related violations. |
| revoke | Officially cancel (a decree, decision, or promise. He revoked the ban on smoking. |
| suspend | (of a judge or court) cause (an imposed sentence) not to be enforced as long as no further offence is committed within a specified period. Two officers were suspended from duty pending the outcome of the investigation. |
| waive | Refrain from insisting on or using (a right or claim. He will waive all rights to the money. |
| withdraw | Withdraw from active participation. It put me off taking the Pill my partner now withdraws. |
| withdrawal | The act of ceasing to participate in an activity. The nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood. |
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