rescinded

verbdeclare null and void

Synonyms for rescinded

verb declare null and void

Antonyms for rescinded

Word Origin & History

1630s, from French rescinder "cut off, cancel" (15c.), and directly from Latin rescindere "to cut off, tear off, abolish," from re- "back" (see re-) + scindere "to cut, split" (see shed (v.)). Related: Rescinded; rescinding.

Example Sentences for rescinded

Wholesale pardons which could easily be rescinded afterwards.

I demanded that his order should be rescinded; but he was haughty and impudent in his manner.

The death sentence was rescinded, of course, pending this new trial.

In 1710 the Act for Ports, like its predecessors, was rescinded.

The protest was heeded by the Czar and the ukase was rescinded.

Celibacy was at first imposed as a rule of the community, but later was rescinded.

No concession was to be made, nothing was to be promised, until the Covenant had been rescinded.

The Orders in Council were also rescinded in the summer of 1812.

The convention can be rescinded only after a two years' notice.

Randolph, the English resident, foresaw that the Acts might be rescinded.