call off
Cancel the event
To call off is to cancel something previously scheduled or planned: They called off the wedding, The search was called off at dusk.
You can also call off a dog or attacker—commanding them to stop: Call off your dogs!
The sense is withdrawing or summoning back from action.
End before completion
- terminateBring to an end
- discontinueTo stop doing
- revokeOfficially cancel authorization
- rescindFormally cancel or withdraw
annul · nullify · scrub · halt · withdraw · drop · retract · quash
Enforced waiting period
- deferDelay or submit
- rescheduleAssign a different time
- adjournTemporarily halt proceedings
- tableHorizontal furniture surface
shelve · push back · rain check · suspend · pause · set aside · hold over · carry over
abort
End before completion
- terminateBring to an end
- discontinueTo stop doing
- revokeOfficially cancel authorization
rescind · annul · nullify · scrub · halt · withdraw · drop · retract · quash · countermand
delay
Enforced waiting period
- deferDelay or submit
- rescheduleAssign a different time
- adjournTemporarily halt proceedings
table · shelve · push back · rain check · suspend · pause · set aside · hold over · carry over
whistle
Shrill air-blown sounder
handler · trainer · command · restrain · retrieve · pack · hounds · hunt · chase · attack
reprieve
Postponement of punishment
- respiteShort pause from hardship
- easedMade less severe
- unburdenedFreed from a load
reassured · exhale · grateful · thankful · dodged · spared · escaped · relieved · sigh of relief
- phrasal verbspick up, look at, put down, turn on, wait for
- cancelcancel, annul, nullify, invalidate, revoke
- Roller Derbyjammer, blocker, jam, bout, pack
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- baseball actionscatch, throw, hit, pitch, field
call offgo ahead with
Begin or continue doing
continue · keep on · follow through · see through · stick with
call, off, recall, caller, recalled, recalling, callers, recalls, callable