cancel

Plural: cancels

Noun

a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
A cancellation.
A cancellation.
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
The page thus suppressed.
The page that replaces it.

Verb

Verb Forms: canceled, canceling, cancels, cancelled, cancelling

To annul or revoke; to call off an event or plan.
postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- "cancel the dinner party"
make up for
declare null and void; make ineffective
- "Cancel the election results"
remove or make invisible
make invalid for use
- "cancel cheques or tickets"
To cross out something with lines etc.
To invalidate or annul something.
To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
To offset or equalize something.
To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
To stop production of a programme.
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
To kill.
To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.

Examples

He cancelled his order on their website.
I had to CANCEL my last move after realizing it opened up a triple-word score for my opponent.
The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

Synonyms

call off, delete, invalidate, natural, offset, scratch, scrub, set off, strike down, annihilate, annul, bag, baptize, belay, bereave of life, black, blackball, blacklist, blight, boycott, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, cancel, cease, compromised to a permanent end, croak, cross out, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, deplatform, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, forbid, grease, kill, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, ravage, repeal, repress, revoke, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, slaughter, slay, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop, stop someone's clock, strike out, suppress, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top, top off, torpedo, undo, veto, void, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck

Scrabble Score: 10

cancel: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cancel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cancel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

cancel: valid Words With Friends Word