annuls

VERB

void an agreement

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abolish abrogate cancel declare delete dissolve expunge invalidate nullify quash repeal rescind retract reverse revoke undo vacate

STRONG

abate annihilate countermand discharge efface erase kill negate neutralize nix obliterate recall scrub vitiate

WEAK

blot out call off get off the hook render null and void wipe out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

allow approve continue do enact enforce establish institute legalize pass permit ratify sanction support uphold validate

STRONG

create help revive save schedule set up

WEAK

keep restore retain revalidate

Example Sentences

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Open the history annuls and you'll find celebrities and WAGs - the wives and girlfriends of drivers - visible in the paddock for decades.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

"The General Court annuls the decision of the European Commission approving Romanian aid to Timisoara International Airport in favour of Wizz Air," the Court said in a statement issued on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Feb. 8, 2023

Protesting annuls their careers, ensures harassment and hastens the closing of the public sphere by the authorities.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Sept. 7: Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously annuls portions of a law in Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2021

One atrocious murder, a political crisis, an incautious or heady continental statesman, the mere catarrh of a king, would have wiped out the significance of our message, as a passing cloud annuls the urgent helio.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard