cancelling

verbcall off; erase
verbequal out

Synonyms for cancelling

verb call off; erase

Antonyms for cancelling

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "cross out with lines," from Anglo-French canceler, from Latin cancellare "to make resemble a lattice," which in Late Latin took on a sense "cross out something written" by marking it with crossed lines, from cancelli, plural of cancellus "lattice, grating," diminutive of cancer "crossed bars, lattice," a variant of carcer "prison" (see incarceration). Figurative use, "to nullify an obligation" is from mid-15c. Related: Canceled (also cancelled); cancelling.

Example Sentences for cancelling

I went to my office to get my letters, and every blessed one was cancelling an order.

Phil manfully works for a year cancelling his father's debt, and then escapes.

Phil manfully works for a year, cancelling his father's debt, and then escapes.

But in the judgment of literature the process of "cancelling" does not exist.

Under the circumstances I feel justified in cancelling our agreement.

This was the formal way among the Swiss of cancelling a treaty.

This would imply the cancelling of trade distinctions and craft lines.

In some well settled districts it may be possible to secure one by cancelling, but such chances are few.

Cancelling all other letters on the matter, this M. de la Foret shall stay in my kingdom.

It became pregnant with new meaning,––levelling walls, obliterating beaten man paths, cancelling rusty duties.