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can·cel

cancel

 
 
pronunciation:
kaen sl
part of speech: verb
inflections: cancels, canceling, canceled
definition: When someone cancels an event, the event is stopped from happening. If it is raining very hard, people might cancel a baseball game. If this happens, there will be no game that day.
School was canceled today because of the snow storm.Maya had to cancel her birthday party because she was sick.
similar words:
abolish, drop, eliminate
derivation: canceler (n.)