cancel
verb
[ ˈkans(ə)l ]
• decide or announce that (a planned event) will not take place.
• "he was forced to cancel his visit"
Similar:
call off,
abandon,
scrap,
drop,
postpone,
mothball,
scrub,
scratch,
axe,
nix,
redline,
• (of a factor or circumstance) neutralize or negate the force or effect of (another).
• "the electric fields may cancel each other out"
Similar:
neutralize,
counterbalance,
counteract,
balance (out),
countervail,
negate,
nullify,
wipe out,
offset,
compensate for,
make up for,
negative,
counterweigh,
cancel
noun
• a mark made on a postage stamp to show that it has been used.
• "a stamp franked and with an adhesive cancel"
• a new page or section inserted in a book to replace the original text, typically to correct an error.
• "a cancel title page"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘obliterate or delete writing by drawing or stamping lines across it’): from Old French canceller, from Latin cancellare, from cancelli ‘crossbars’.
