Word Meanings - ANNUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,

Additional info about word: ANNUL

1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke. Syn. -- To abolish; abrogate; repeal; cancel; reverse; rescind; revoke; nullify; destroy. See Abolish.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANNUL)

• Abrogate
• Abolish
• cancel
• set aside
• annul
• repeal
• expunge
• rescind
• Cancel
• Efface
• blot out
• nullify
• quash
• revoke
• abrogate
• obliterate
• discharge
• erase
• abolish
• countervail
• Nullify
• neutralize
• extinguish
• Quash
• Crush
• overthrow
• annihilate
• suppress
• vacate
• Rebut
• Meet
• retort
• confute

Related words: (words related to ANNUL)

• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• VACATE
  Etym: 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , 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;
• ANNULOID
  Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
• EFFACE
  1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy,
• RETORTIVE
  Containing retort.
• EFFACEABLE
  Capable of being effaced.
• ABOLISH
  1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly. 2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. And with thy blood abolish
• REPEAL
  re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute;
• QUASHEE
  A negro of the West Indies.
• ABROGATE
  Abrogated; abolished. Latimer.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• INEFFACEABLE
  Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• SEMIANNULAR
  Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.
• SURREBUTER
  The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
• IRREPEALABLE
  Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as a law. -- Ir`re*peal"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*peal"a*bly, adv.
• PRESCIND
  To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) 1. To cut off; to abstract. Norris.