rescinded

[ri-sin-did] / rɪˈsɪn dɪd /

VERB

declare null and void

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abolish abrogate annul cancel dismantle invalidate lift overturn quash renege repeal retract reverse revoke set aside void

STRONG

backpedal countermand forget nix recall remove scrub

WEAK

X-out back out of backwater call off crawl out of pull the plug wangle out weasel out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

allow approve enact enforce establish institute keep legalize permit ratify sanction support uphold validate

Example Sentences

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But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to.

From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley, George

This principle is the identity A—A. It endures and cannot be disposed of by thought when all empirical definitions of consciousness are prescinded.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August

There have been at various times several philosophies or attempted explanations of the world, which have either denied or prescinded from theism and finality.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George

Men have imagined they could frame abstract notions of the powers and acts of the mind, and consider them prescinded as well from the mind or spirit itself, as from their respective objects and effects.

From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley, George