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Answer for the clue "Nix ", 6 letters:
cancel

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Word definitions for cancel in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cancellation (''US''); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 2 # (context Internet English) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 3 (context obsolete English) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. 4 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cancel \Can"cel\, n. [See Cancel , v. i., and cf. Chancel .] An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.] A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. ...

Usage examples of cancel.

Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.

Achievements so great as to cancel out the effect of the apologia itself.

American production schedules had been upset in April 1942 to give top priority to landing and beaching craft for the cross-Channel operation that was canceled, and again in January 1943 schedules were upset to give top priority to ships for antisubmarine warfare.

An hour later Bluey set up a landing at Marathon, called Flight Services and canceled his flight plan, then roared down the runway, ten feet above the ground.

So edition 1824, which is supported by the Bodleian manuscript,--both the cancelled draft and the revised version: cf.

In the space here left blank, line 231, the manuscript has manhood, which is cancelled for some monosyllable unknown--query, spring?

I left a note for Spike on the day, informing him that I had cancelled the meeting and would reschedule it.

He wondered whether he could go through with it but I told him he must, otherwise Jane and the rest of the family would wonder why he had cancelled it.

It gave me the opportunity to rearrange work that had been cancelled, to do some P.

I knew then that he must have been ill because he hardly ever cancelled any arrangements himself.

After the panto he was due to go on holiday with Shelagh and I thought that would put him to rights, but then he cancelled it.

He had worked himself into a daddy of a tantrum, cancelled both shows and then had to find someone to blame.

So the trip was cancelled at the eleventh hour and he told me he was finished.

He promptly had a row with her, lost his poems, did not know what he could possibly read, and said it would be better if I cancelled the show.

Fortunately, Nimitz later thought better of this, and cancelled the order.