Annul
/əˈnʌl/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To formally revoke the validity of. transitive
"If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type."
- 2 cancel officially wordnet
- 3 To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid. transitive
- 4 declare invalid wordnet
Example
More examples"“She speaks truly,” said Lady Ashton, “it WAS I who, authorised alike by the laws of God and man, advised her, and concurred with her, to set aside an unhappy and precipitate engagement, and to annul it by the authority of Scripture itself.”"
Etymology
From Middle English annullen, from Old French anuller, from Latin annullō (“annihilate, annul”), from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“none, not any”).