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rescinding

noun as in abolishment

noun as in repeal

noun as in reversal

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After a teacher’s union sued the San Dieguito Union School District in Encinitas, school leaders rescinded their plan to fully reopen this month.

Brady led a final, heart-stopping drive, with poise that seemed almost jarring back then, and Madden rescinded his second-guess even before Adam Vinatieri’s game-winning field goal went through the uprights.

The growth crystallized last week, when Rivera rescinded the captaincy of quarterback Dwayne Haskins and the team voted for Young to replace him, a rare honor for a non-quarterback rookie.

The division can address problems raised in the reports by requiring more training, requesting the dismissal of health care company employees and threatening to rescind provider contracts.

In October, with the Justice Department and the All Muslim Association readying for a court trial, the county board rescinded the ordinance altogether in a 4-to-3 vote.

Rescind′ment; Rescis′sion, the act of rescinding: the act of annulling or repealing.

He who made the bargain had the liberty of rescinding it if he would lose more by adhering to it than by abandoning it.

Once more no attention was paid to the fraud in the sale act, or to the rescinding act of the Georgia Legislature.

Georgia's rescinding act "nipt in the bud a number of aspiring swindlers."

Three weeks later, the news of the enactment of the rescinding law was published in the New England metropolis.

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On this page you'll find 260 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rescinding, such as: abrogation, annulment, dissolution, elimination, nullification, and cancellation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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