How to pronounce “cancel”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (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); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
• [Noun]
• (US) A cancellation.
• (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.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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