Annul

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  • transitive verb. To make or declare void or invalid, as a marriage or a law; nullify.
  • transitive verb. To bring to an end the effect or existence of; cancel out.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reduce to nothing; annihilate; obliterate.
  • To make void or null; nullify; abrogate; abolish; do away with: used especially of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, usages, and the like.
  • Synonyms Abolish, Repeal, etc. (see abolish); Nullify, Annihilate, etc. (see neutralize); retract, declare null and void, supersede.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To formally revoke the validity of.
  • verb. To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cancel officially
  • verb. declare invalid
  • Word Usage
    "While Buckley calmly declares Hefner's out to "annul" the moral code, Hefner attempts to claim he was not rejecting or attacking monogamy, which is quite simply lying."
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