| 单词 | cancel |
| 释义 | cancel (once / 482 pages) 1vn 2v 3v To cancel means to call off or postpone indefinitely. Which is probably what you would do if the hotel you were planning to stay in has an infestation of bedbugs. Scrub, scratch, or strike down — those are all other ways of saying cancel. People often cancel plans, deciding not to do something they had already scheduled. In math, if the numerator and a denominator of a fraction have common factors you can cancel the factors out, which means delete them. To cancel a debt means to get rid it. A cancel on a postage stamp is the mark that shows it has been used. WORD FAMILYcancel: canceled, canceling, cancellated, cancellation, cancelled, cancelling, cancels+/cancellation: cancellations USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s unclear if some flights will need to be canceled. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Last month, South Korean authorities said they would cancel Ms. Chung’s passport. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Heavy smog on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be canceled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the New Year holiday. Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v declare null and void; make ineffective Cancel the election results Syn|Hypo|Hyper strike down annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate cancel officially remitrelease from (claims, debts, or taxes) write offcancel (a debt) annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, voiddeclare invalid recallmake unavailable; bar from sale or distribution go back on, renege, renege on, renegue onfail to fulfill a promise or obligation breakinvalidate by judicial action retirewithdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds stetprinting: cancel, as of a correction or deletion adjudge, declare, hold declare to be 2v make invalid for use cancel cheques or tickets Syn|Hyper invalidate mark, score make underscoring marks 3v postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled cancel the dinner party Syn call off, scratch, scrub 4n a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat 2Syn|Hyper natural musical notation (music) notation used by musicians v remove or make invisible 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper delete efface, erase, rub out, score out, wipe off remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing excise, expunge, scratch, strikeremove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line spongeerase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard cut out, scratch outstrike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract v make up for Syn|Hypo|Hyper offset, set off counteract, counterbalance, countervail, neutralize oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions overridecounteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle) balance, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize bring into balance or equilibrium |
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