CRYING OFF Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

crying off

verb

present participle of cry off

as in canceling

to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) their film deal had been abruptly cried off, and now the filmmakers were back to square one

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Recent Examples of crying off People were crying off-camera a lot. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026

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It was incensed because cancelling the exhibition put every arts organization receiving even indirect government funding on notice.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
There is no shortage of policy proposals for reducing college costs, ranging from freezing tuition to canceling student debt.

— Thomas Adam, Fortune, 13 July 2026

Definition of canceling

Verb

Three years after buying Bellus Health and its chronic cough candidate camlipixant for around $2 billion, GSK is abandoning the program, Pharmaphorum points out.

— Ed Silverman, STAT, 17 July 2026
The idea of abandoning the whole schedule alarmed several health officials, including then-FDA commissioner Marty Makary and Tracy Beth Høeg, one of his top deputies, four sources said.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of abandoning

Verb

The dismantling and scrapping process took over five years, with the project being completed in July 2017.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
In turn, Nolan has sacrificed Odysseus himself to serve his own needs, scrapping the character’s prickly personality to Trojan-horse a message about how empires collapse.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of scrapping

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His administration has increased scrutiny of legal immigration, revoking student visas and green cards of university students over their ideological views and stripping legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants.

— Doina Chiacu, USA Today, 16 July 2026
The company is reportedly now blocking 23 million spam views and revoking nearly 2 million inauthentic votes per day, while pointing to the community moderators and users that have long played a role in combatting content that violates its rules.

— Cody Luongo, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of revoking

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Meanwhile, Antonelli made the mistake of aborting his lap, thinking there were double yellow flags.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 1 July 2026
The crew coordinated with air traffic control and performed a go-around, which involves aborting a landing attempt and climbing away from the runway, to avoid an American Airlines plane that was departing from an intersecting runway, The Guardian reported.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026

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Advertisement In recent years, some church leaders have advocated for repealing the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 9 July 2026
Congress also approved repealing comprehensive sanctions under the Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act.

— Mariam Khan, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of repealing

Verb

After previously calling off an engagement, BelléJolie Force is a singer who is searching for her Prince Charming.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
The officers pursued the vehicle, a Volkswagen Jetta, for roughly a minute before calling off the chase because of the suspect’s speed and erratic driving, police said.

— Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 July 2026

Definition of calling off

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