RESCIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescind mean? 

• RESCIND (verb)
  The verb RESCIND has 1 sense:

1. cancel officially

  Familiarity information: RESCIND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCIND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rescind    ... he / she / it rescinds   
Past simple: rescinded   
Past participle: rescinded   
-ing form: rescinding   

Sense 1

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 "rescind" is one way to...):

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

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

recission; rescission ((law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made)

 Context examples 

When the permission to do something is rescinded or withdrawn.

(Consent Withdrawn, NCI Thesaurus)

I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)