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