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1
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
- please call to cancel your appointment with the dentist if you can't make it
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2
to put an end to by formal action
- the agreement can be canceled by either side with a formal written notice
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3
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it
- canceled the check and wrote a new one
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4
to destroy all traces of
- it seemed as though all honor and decency had been canceled by the war's new moral order
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The first known use of cancel was in the 14th century
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