Crossword clues for cancelled
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
WordNet
n. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural]
[also: cancelling, cancelled]
v. postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party" [syn: call off]
make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" [syn: offset, set off]
declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" [syn: strike down]
remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: delete]
of cheques or tickets [syn: invalidate]
[also: cancelling, cancelled]
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Wikipedia
"Cancelled" (also known as Cartman Gets an Anal Probe Redux) is the first episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 97th episode of the series overall. It first aired on Comedy Central March 19, 2003.
The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker and is rated TV-MA in the United States, except on syndicated broadcasts, where it is rated TV-14, instead. It was originally intended to air as the 100th episode, but " I'm a Little Bit Country" aired as the 100th episode instead.
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.