Synonyms of the word

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.

abrogation

• n. The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority; abolition.

annul

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

annulment

• n. An act or instance of annulling.
• n. A state of having been annulled.
• n. (law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
• n. (law) A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
• n. (archaic) Total destruction.

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.

cancellation

• n. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of…
• n. (mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
• n. (philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
• n. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel…

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.

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.

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…