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canceled

Variant of cancel

transitive verb canceled or cancelled, canceling or cancelling

    1. to cross out with lines or other marks, as in deleting written matter or marking a check as used and cleared
    2. to print or stamp marks on (a postage stamp) as by machine or handstamp, to prevent reuse
  1. to make invalid; annul
  2. to do away with; wipe out; abolish, withdraw, etc.: to cancel an order or a ticket reservation
  3. to neutralize or balance in force or influence; offset: often with out
  4. Math. to remove (a common factor from both terms of a fraction, equivalents of opposite sign or on opposite sides of an equation, etc.)
  5. Printing to delete or omit

intransitive verb

to offset or cancel each other: with out

noun

  1. the deletion or omission of matter in type or in print
    1. the matter omitted or deleted
    2. the replacement for this
  2. Informal cancellation (sense )

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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