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natural, cancel

n. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

cancellation, cancel, CAN

n. the act of cancelling an operation

cancel

v. (undo)

delete, cancel

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

cancel, strike down

v. declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"

cancel, invalidate

v. make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets"

cancel, offset, set off

v. make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"

cancel, call off, scratch, scrub

v. postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"

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erase, delete

v. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

decimate

v. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

obliterate

v. do away with completely, without leaving a trace

hold on, stop

v. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

abstain, refrain, desist

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

leave office, quit, step down, resign

v. give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

edit

v. supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"

obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

kill

v. destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

scratch, scrape, scratch up

v. cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

grate, grind

v. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

graze

v. break the skin (of a body part) by scraping; "She was grazed by the stray bullet"

rasp

v. scrape with a rasp

score, nock, mark

v. make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"

contradict, negate, contravene

v. deny the truth of

void

v. clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something; "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience"

invalidate, nullify

v. show to be invalid

revoke

v. fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify

v. declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

right

v. put in or restore to an upright position; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized"

equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate

v. make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"

kill

v. destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate

v. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"

set

v. put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state; "set the house afire"

sign, ratify

v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?"

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