rescind
verb /rɪˈsɪnd/
/rɪˈsɪnd/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rescind | /rɪˈsɪnd/ /rɪˈsɪnd/ |
| he / she / it rescinds | /rɪˈsɪndz/ /rɪˈsɪndz/ |
| past simple rescinded | /rɪˈsɪndɪd/ /rɪˈsɪndɪd/ |
| past participle rescinded | /rɪˈsɪndɪd/ /rɪˈsɪndɪd/ |
| -ing form rescinding | /rɪˈsɪndɪŋ/ /rɪˈsɪndɪŋ/ |
- rescind something to officially state that a law, contract, decision, etc. no longer has any legal force synonym revoke
- The agreement was rescinded on 20 March 1993.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRescind is used with these nouns as the object:- contract
- order
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin rescindere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + scindere ‘to divide, split’.