Crossword clues for canceled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling.] [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. ? latticed gate. Cf. Chancel.]
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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.]
A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.
--Evelyn. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] ``Canceled from heaven.''
--Milton.-
To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
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To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
The indentures were canceled.
--Thackeray.He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.
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(Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.
Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish.
Wiktionary
(standard spelling of cancelled lang=en from=US) v
(en-past of: cancel)
Usage examples of "canceled".
While still closeted with Seyss he had put through a telephone call to Mussolini, but the Duce was not immediately available and a few minutes later Schuschnigg canceled the call.
So, you see, I was going to send three separate cars, but when all three guests canceled at the last minute, I notified the staff members not to make the trip.
Cannon to give me all the information he had on the other two women who canceled at the last minute.
When he gently pointed out that if she had killed Avery, Carrie certainly would have canceled her vacation plans, Jilly was mortified.
Fritsch, who had invited him to dinner for February 2 and then canceled the invitation, had been arrested.
This was in fact what General Gamelin ordered on the morning of May 19, but he was replaced that evening by General Maxime Weygand, who immediately canceled the order.
The General frantically canceled the Valkyrie alarm and the troops were marched back to their barracks as quickly and as inconspicuously as possible.
Therefore the one-hour difference in time between Berlin and London was canceled out.
Everything else came to a standstill, the steelworkers swearing solidarity with the railroad men until the Pennsylvania canceled its wage cuts.
When I got there last night, I found a sign on the door saying the opening had been canceled due to the death of the artist.
She had been pleased to hear Dee had canceled the show, thinking the gallery owner had come to her senses.
If even a fourth of them canceled, she was going to suffer from excess inventory, an unnecessarily large staff, and decreased income.
A client canceled on me, my employees are printing pictures of me, and my dad saw it.
He changed his mind, canceled the instructions with a wave of his hand.