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Annul

//əˈnʌl// verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    cancel officially wordnet
  3. 3
    To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid. transitive
  4. 4
    declare invalid wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English annullen, from Old French anuller, from Latin annullō (“annihilate, annul”), from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“none, not any”).

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