LekhoriLekhoriTo cross out something with lines etc.
A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
To invalidate or annul something.
He cancelled his order on their website.
A cancellation.
An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
A surname.
From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Old French canceler, from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a...
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To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.