Synonyms of the word countermand


COUNTERMANDANNUL - BID - BIDDING - CANCEL - COMMAND - DICTATION - LIFT - OVERTURN - REPEAL - RESCIND - REVERSE - REVOKE - VACATE

countermand

  • v. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
  • v. To recall a person or unit with such an order.
  • v. To prohibit; to forbid.
  • v. To oppose; to revoke the command of.
  • n. An order to the contrary of a previous one.

annul

  • v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
  • v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

bid

  • v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
  • v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
  • v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
  • v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
  • v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
  • n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
  • n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
  • n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

bidding

  • v. present participle of bid.
  • n. That which one is bidden to do; a command.
  • n. The act of placing a bid.

cancel

  • v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
  • v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
  • v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
  • v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
  • v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
  • v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  • v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  • v. (slang) To kill.
  • n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
  • n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  • n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

command

  • n. An order to do something.
  • n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
  • n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
  • n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
  • n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
  • n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
  • n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
  • n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
  • n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
  • v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
  • v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
  • v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
  • v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
  • v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
  • v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
  • v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

dictation

  • n. (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
  • n. (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
  • n. (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
  • n. (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.

lift

  • n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
  • n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
  • v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
  • v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
  • v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
  • v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
  • v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
  • v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
  • v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
  • n. An act of lifting or raising.
  • n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
  • n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
  • n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
  • n. (historical slang) A thief.
  • n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
  • n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
  • n. an improvement in mood.
  • n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
  • n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
  • n. A lift gate.
  • n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
  • n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
  • n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
  • n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

overturn

  • v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
  • v. To overthrow or destroy something.
  • v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
  • v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

repeal

  • v. (transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
  • v. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
  • v. To suppress; to repel.
  • n. An act or instance of repealing.

rescind

  • v. (transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of…

reverse

  • adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
  • adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
  • adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
  • adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
  • adj. (botany) Reversed.
  • adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
  • adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
  • n. The opposite of something.
  • n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
  • n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
  • n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
  • n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
  • n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
  • n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
  • n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
  • v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
  • v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
  • v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
  • v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
  • v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
  • v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
  • v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
  • v. To overthrow; to subvert.

revoke

  • v. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
  • v. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  • v. (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  • v. (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • v. (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • n. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  • n. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious…
  • n. A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense…

vacate

  • v. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
  • v. To leave an office or position.
  • v. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
  • v. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural…

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