取消 — meaning in English
qǔ xiāo
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English meaning
- abolish verb To officially end a law, system, or practice.
- abolishment noun The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
- blank adj Free of writing, marks, or content; empty.
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- disqualify verb To officially rule someone ineligible to take part in or win something, often because of a rule violation.
- dissolve verb To mix completely into a liquid so as to become part of the solution.
- nullify verb To make legally invalid.
- quash verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- repeal verb To officially cancel a law.
- rescind verb To officially cancel or revoke something, such as a law, order, or agreement.
- scrub verb To clean something by rubbing hard, often with a brush.
- undo verb To reverse or cancel the effect of something already done.
- void adjective Completely empty; containing nothing.
Senses
取消 is used for these senses in English:
- abolish To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]
- abolishment The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16th century.]
- blank (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- call off (transitive) To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
- cancel (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- desuetude (uncountable) The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence; (countable) an instance of this.
- disqualify (transitive) To make ineligible for something.
- nullify (transitive, legal) To make legally invalid.