cancel

Part of speech: verb

To mark out or off; annul; revoke.

Part of speech: noun

Cancelation.

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Usage examples "cancel":

  1. This is my excuse for asking an immediate interview; and if it's not a good enough excuse I must cancel this appointment, that is all." - "The Tracer of Lost Persons", Robert W. Chambers.
  2. Courtenay, together with Malone, helped him out of scrapes with Alexander Tytler and Lord Macdonald, induced him to lighten his published attacks on Mrs. Piozzi and helped make him aware of the merit of her edition of Johnson's correspondence, and advised him to cancel some questionable passages in the Life on William Gerard Hamilton. - "A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786)", John Courtenay.
  3. Beyond that the company had the right to cancel the contract. - "Boer Politics", Yves Guyot.