cancel

IPA: kˈænsʌɫ

A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
(printing) The page thus suppressed.
(printing) The page that replaces it.
A surname.

(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
(transitive) To offset or equalize something.
(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
(transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
(slang) To kill.
(transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.

Examples of "cancel" in Sentences

The tour was cancelled.
The Regatta is in danger of cancellation.
It was an astute move to cancel the auction.
The celebratory victory banquet was canceled.
The cancellation logo is the sketch of the temple.
The cancelled journey was the beginning of the end.
The cancellation paragraph in the beginning is vague.
Specifically the controversy surrounding the cancellation.
Consequently, the construction of the airport is cancelled.
Amid the uproar, he was ushered off the stage and the second night was canceled.