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RESCIND
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they rescind ... he / she / it rescinds
Past simple: rescinded
Past participle: rescinded
-ing form: rescinding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cancel officially
Example:
vacate a death sentence
Synonyms:
annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "rescind" is one way to...):
cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rescind"):
go back on; renege; renege on; renegue on (fail to fulfill a promise or obligation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
recission; rescission ((law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made)
