Cancel: Definition and part of speech

Cancel

  1. v. i. The part thus suppressed.
  2. v. i. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
  3. v. i. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  4. v. i. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
  5. v. i. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
  6. v. i. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  7. v. i. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  8. v. i. The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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