Meaning & use
cancel
To decide that a planned event, order, or arrangement will not happen after all.
See it in a sentence
We had to cancel the picnic because of the sudden thunderstorm on Saturday.
She canceled her gym membership after moving to a new city.
A note on using this word
The correct spelling is 'cancel,' with the letters in the order c-a-n-c-e-l, not 'cancle.'
Words with a similar meaning
call offabort
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Words with an opposite meaning
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