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cancel

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1. cancel - Noun

2. cancel - Verb

3. Cancel - Proper noun

Meaning

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

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.

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

The part thus suppressed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. Hideki Tōjō

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. Ben Goldacre

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. Harry Shearer

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Lionel Blue

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Edward FitzGerald (poet)

Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison. Arabic Proverb

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