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cancel English

Meaning cancel meaning

What does cancel mean?
Definitions in simple English

cancel Verb

— If you cancel something that was going to happen, you decide that it will not happen. Her father had cancelled his trip to Canandaigua because of the weather. The mayor is also reducing city services and canceling plans to hire thousands of new workers. I'm afraid I can't make it; I'll have to cancel.

cancel

— verb (= call off, scratch, scrub) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled Call off the engagement cancel the dinner party we had to scrub our vacation plans scratch that meeting--the chair is ill — verb (= strike down) declare null and void; make ineffective Cancel the election results strike down a law — verb make invalid for use cancel cheques or tickets — verb (= offset) make up for His skills offset his opponent's superior strength — verb (= delete) remove or make invisible Please delete my name from your list — noun a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

Synonyms cancel synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cancel?

cancel English » English

annul revoke abolish repeal abrogate call off nullify erase delete remit invalidate withdraw cross out rescind abjure cancellation countermand void stop strike out obliterate abort write off reverse retract recall overrule offset neutralize drop dissolve abate wipe out undo terminate suppress scrub quit quash overturn negate give up eliminate do away with discontinue disannul cease cancelation vacate unlive

Topics cancel topics

What do people use cancel to talk about?
Work and occupation Work Method Plan

Cancel an event
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Forgive

Conjugation cancel conjugation

How do you conjugate cancel?

cancel · verb

Examples cancel examples

How do I use cancel in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't cancel anything yet.
We need to cancel the meeting.
Is it likely they will cancel the event?
I need to cancel my reservation.
I am very sorry, but I must cancel our appointment for February 27.
A sudden illness forced her to cancel her appointment.
I should cancel my L.A. trip.
We had better cancel the hike.
Can I cancel this ticket?
Circumstances forced us to cancel our appointment.
Please cancel my order and send confirmation that this has been done.
I am sorry to cancel the appointment at the last minute.
We must cancel our trip to Japan.
I had a hard time trying to persuade him to cancel the trip.
I need to cancel my subscription.
Otherwise we will have to cancel this order.
I had to cancel my trip on account of the strike.
Please cancel my order and refund the money.
It was hard to persuade him to cancel the trip.
It was difficult to convince him to cancel the trip.

Movie subtitles

It's too expensive to cancel.
I suppose I can cancel the Vienna contract.
And I'll cancel my hairdresser's tomorrow.
I want to cancel my table for after the theater tonight.
The taking of the cross will cancel a pledge?
Then I'll cancel the order about the bags.
Cancel the-job! - Exit out and disperse!
If that call's what I think, she can cancel those roses and make it lilies for me.
Cancel that reservation.
So, if you don't like our paper, why don't you cancel your subscription?
Cancel the tickets.
Take that girl out of New Orleans, and we'll cancel your debt.
I'll cancel your note tomorrow.
Did you cancel the plane tickets?
Death cancel his debt to me.
If you don't mind, we'd like to cancel our little financial arrangement.
He's trying to cancel an engagement and have lunch with us.
What Macky, you didn't cancel the rooms?
Father, you're going to cancel everything you bought.
No, cancel it!
Take out a subscription to The News and cancel it.
And if I should want him to cancel a passage, he'd do that too. - So what?
You mean you'll cancel the annulment?
Cancel them all.
Go to the Prince immediately, and ask him to cancel the purchase of painting.
No, I'm sorry, dear. I'm afraid we'll have to cancel that tomorrow.
I had to cancel the theater tickets for this evening.
They cancel themselves.
I should say they'd better do it and they're liable to cancel it, - now that you're back. Or so they say.
Would you like me to cancel gravity?
And if I should want him to cancel a passage, he'd do that, too.

News and current affairs

Only when Rodman's superiors cancel his experiments and he takes home Caesar, an infant chimpanzee, does the scientist begin to care about others.
Though higher airline ticket prices may reduce purchases, airlines reduce oil consumption only when they cancel flights.
It had been assumed that thousands of Hezbollah rockets fired in concentrated barrages - which cancel out the inaccuracy of unguided rockets and powerfully compound blast effects - would kill many civilians, perhaps hundreds each day.
The British government tried to wriggle out of taking sides on the implications of the French and Dutch votes by saying that it would suspend its own plans for a referendum, but not cancel it outright.
Most visibly, the Obama administration had to cancel its participation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali in October, impeding progress on the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The sleight of hand works because we assume that the action will cancel all the effects of inaction, whereas of course, nothing like that is true.
The sensible guess is that these two factors cancel each other out.
Once again, the sensible guess is that these two factors more or less cancel each other out.
Millions of Europeans want EU governments to lower their barriers to developing countries' exports, cancel Third World debt, and increase foreign aid.
In Italy, the country's stagnant GDP masks two phenomena which cancel each other out.
Yes, lets cancel those debts but lets get in exchange better governance rather than a no-ties write off that only worsens the credit rating of poor countries, locking them out from investment and improved economies.
In these circumstances, an isolated and increasingly unpopular regime might decide to cancel or rig the presidential election when it fell due.
America will soon try to appoint an Iraqi regime that will aim to cancel many of Saddam's oil contracts with France, Russia, and China, in order to make room for US and UK firms.
If the US tips from mild recession into deep recession, the global deflationary implications will cancel out some of the inflationary pressures the world is facing.
It is remarkable to consider that we could cancel out this century's global warming with 1,900 unmanned ships spraying seawater mist into the air to thicken clouds.
And, to some extent, their expectation was met; some opposition members of Japan's Diet tweeted that Abe should cancel the promised aid.
Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.
Moreover, should Abbas fail to muster the support of the United States and Europe, Netanyahu might feel free to cancel existing agreements and engage in unilateral steps of his own.

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