/ English Dictionary

RESCIND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cancel officially

Example:

vacate a death sentence

Synonyms:

annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "rescind" is one way to...):

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rescind"):

go back on; renege; renege on; renegue on (fail to fulfill a promise or obligation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

recission; rescission ((law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made)

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