rescind
Officially call off
Rescind means to revoke, cancel, or repeal something previously granted or enacted.
Laws, offers, contracts, and permissions can all be rescinded: The company rescinded the job offer after the background check.
The word implies formal withdrawal of something that had official standing—you rescind a policy, not a casual promise.
Annul a statute
- abolishOfficially end a practice
- revokeOfficially cancel authorization
- reverseTurn to opposite
- undoReverse a prior action
overturn · abrogate · dismantle · strike · invalidate · roll back · do away with · set aside
Declare legally void
- voidWithout legal effect
- nullifyMake of no effect
- invalidateMake null or void
- abrogateFormally abolish or annul
quash · vacate · negate · vitiate · countermand · overturn · set aside · strike down
repeal
Annul a statute
undo · overturn · abrogate · dismantle · strike · invalidate · roll back · do away with · set aside · countermand
annul
Declare legally void
- voidWithout legal effect
- nullifyMake of no effect
- invalidateMake null or void
abrogate · quash · vacate · negate · vitiate · countermand · overturn · set aside · strike down · cancel out
retract
Withdraw something said
unsay · backtrack · backpedal · renounce · disavow · reverse · walk back · pull back · go back on · eat one's words
cancel
Revoke or terminate
- terminateBring to an end
- abortEnd before completion
- discontinueTo stop doing
halt · stop · suspend · end · abandon · scrub · axe · drop · call off · put an end to
- cancelcancel, annul, nullify, invalidate, revoke
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
- undoundo, undo button, backtrack, revert, reverse
- contract actionssign, negotiate, draft, execute, breach
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate