Definition of Cancel

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Cancel

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

The part thus suppressed.

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Cancel Quotations

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Howard Hughes

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
Hideki Tojo

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Mason Cooley

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
Lionel Blue

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
Michael Shermer

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.
Will Arnett

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
Harry Shearer

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.
Craig Kilborn

Cancel Translations

cancel in Afrikaans is kanselleer
cancel in Dutch is afbestellen
cancel in German is abbrechen, aufheben, annullieren
cancel in Italian is stornare
cancel in Portuguese is cancelamento
cancel in Spanish is anular

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