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Definition of Cancel

Cancel

  1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
  2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  3. 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.
  4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
  5. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  6. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  7. The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  8. The part thus suppressed.

Cancel Quotations

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

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
Jerry Saltz

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

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
Louis C. K.
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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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