annul

英 [ə'nʌl] 美 [ə'nʌl]

• v. 废除；消减；取消；宣告无效

英英释义

Verb:

1. declare invalid;

   "The contract was annulled"
   "void a plea"
   

2. cancel officially;

   "He revoked the ban on smoking"
   "lift an embargo"
   "vacate a death sentence"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. The effect of the statute was to annul this covenant.
   但州法规废除了这一契约。
2. Annul the previously transmitted clearance.
   取消先前发给的许可。
3. For them, the decision to annul same-sex marriages will be personal, even painful.
   对这些同性恋者来说，决定取消婚礼会是私人的，而且是痛苦的。

经典引文

• Light..to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annulled.

  出自： Milton

• Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

  出自： R. W. Emerson

• You, Who cannot annul a sparrow's footprint.

  出自： K. Amis

词汇搭配

• annul. =annulment

近反义词

【近义词】

• cancel 取消
• invalidate 使无效
• rescind 废除
• withdraw 撤回
• call off 取消
• end 结束
• terminate 结束
• dissolve 使溶解
• put an end to 结束
• abolish 废除
• quash 镇压
• avoid 避免
• void 空的
• reverse 逆转
• revoke 撤回，取消，废除...
• repeal 废止
• nullify 使无效
• countermand 取消
• disannul 取消
• discharge 排出
• recant 放弃主张
• retract 缩回
• abjure 发誓弃绝
• recall 回忆
• undo 解开
• overrule 驳回
• back-pedal 背弃
• eliminate 除去
• efface 擦掉
• expunge 擦掉
• eradicate 根除
• annihilate 消灭
• exterminate 消灭
• do away with 废除，去掉
• wipe out 消灭
• blot out 完全清除(思想、记忆等)...
• wipe 擦
• blot 污点
• out 出
• vacate 空出
• away 离开
• with 用
• do 做
• lift 举起
• overturn 翻倒