ANNUL (annulled, annulling)

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Irregular inflected forms: annulled    , annulling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does annul mean? 

• ANNUL (verb)
  The verb ANNUL has 2 senses:

1. declare invalid

2. cancel officially

  Familiarity information: ANNUL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNUL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they annul    ... he / she / it annuls   
Past simple: annulled   
Past participle: annulled   
-ing form: annulling   

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:

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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:

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 Spenlow and I went into Court, where we had a divorce-suit coming on, under an ingenious little statute (repealed now, I believe, but in virtue of which I have seen several marriages annulled), of which the merits were these.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