Called off

Usage examples of cancelled.

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.

United States and England, that the State Department had refused comment, that the President had cancelled a scheduled press conference, and that Congress was in an uproar.

The orders were sent out to the groups, but the raid was cancelled, presumably because the weather conditions became unfavourable.

Bomber Command documents do not record details of cancelled operations, so it is not known what size of force Harris was intending to send on these raids.

But the raid was cancelled later in the day, and it is not known whether this would have marked the reopening of the Battle of Berlin.