Entry Word: X out

Function: verb

Meaning: to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it <x out the names of the people who have already left>

Synonyms cancel, cross (out), delete, kill, scratch (out), strike (out), stroke (out)

Related Words blot out, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub out, wipe out; cut, excise, remove