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ANNUL (annulled, annulling)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: annulled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, annulling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does annul mean? 

ANNUL (verb)
  The verb ANNUL has 2 senses:

1. declare invalidplay

2. cancel officiallyplay

  Familiarity information: ANNUL used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANNUL (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they annul  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it annuls  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: annulled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: annulled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: annulling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Declare invalid

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void

Context example:

void a plea

Hypernyms (to "annul" is one way to...):

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "annul"):

set aside (annul (a legal decision))

break (invalidate by judicial action)

stet (printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

annulment ((law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Cancel officially

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate

Context example:

vacate a death sentence

Hypernyms (to "annul" is one way to...):

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "annul"):

go back on; renege; renege on; renegue on (fail to fulfill a promise or obligation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

annulment (the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation)


 Context examples 


Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.

(Cancel, NCI Thesaurus)

Indicates a person who has never been married or whose marriages have been annulled.

(Never Married, NCI Thesaurus)

It is easy for you to talk of annulling the law of development, but where is the new law of development that will maintain your strength?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Peggotty then retired to her lodging, and Mr. Spenlow and I went into Court, where we had a divorce-suit coming on, under an ingenious little statute (repealed now, I believe, but in virtue of which I have seen several marriages annulled), of which the merits were these.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have shown that no society of slaves can endure, because, in its very nature, such society must annul the law of development.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But you slaves—it is too bad to be slaves, I grant—but you slaves dream of a society where the law of development will be annulled, where no weaklings and inefficients will perish, where every inefficient will have as much as he wants to eat as many times a day as he desires, and where all will marry and have progeny—the weak as well as the strong.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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