canceled

verb

variants or cancelled
past tense of cancel
1
as in scrapped
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) please call to cancel your appointment with the dentist if you can't make it

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2
as in abolished
to put an end to by formal action the agreement can be canceled by either side with a formal written notice

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3
as in deleted
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it canceled the check and wrote a new one

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as in erased
to destroy all traces of it seemed as though all honor and decency had been canceled by the war's new moral order

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Recent Examples of canceled That trial is scheduled to begin next month, but could be pushed back or canceled altogether depending on what the judge decides. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 Abdiel also said he was told his commercial driver’s license would be canceled. — Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026 The warrants were canceled a day later following an arraignment. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 After two seasons, the Onyx Collective series Deli Boys has been canceled at Hulu. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026 Kim said that the orbiter's maneuver brought a slight change in the phase of the spacecraft's orbit, which canceled the probable conjunction between the upper stage and Danuri. — Leonard David, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026 Los Altos Hills canceled its contract amid concerns about privacy, data sharing, cost and effectiveness. — New York Times, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 The actor starred alongside Kyra Sedgwick on Call Your Mother, an ABC sitcom that was canceled after one season. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 The actor, 59, recently caught up with PEOPLE and looked back at his eponymous sitcom, which ran for just two of its 14 episodes before being canceled during the 1999 season. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canceled
  1. scrapped
  2. abolished
  3. deleted
  4. erased
  5. revoked
  6. repealed
  7. removed
  8. eradicated
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  • In June 2025, Gartner predicted more than 40% of agentic AI projects would be scrapped by the end of 2027.
    — Jurin AI Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • One particularly stubborn bottleneck automatically sent recruits who wore glasses for screening for rare disqualifying eye conditions, a requirement officials eventually scrapped.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of scrapped
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  • Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • About three-quarters of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of abolished
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  • Instead of allowing agents to unlock the phone, the 30-year-old Atlantan gave them a code that deleted the phone’s contents, federal authorities say.
    — Reed Williams, AJC.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Harris also mentioned a group chat on his Instagram page that included other people associated with the shooting, but the app had been deleted from his phone, the documents say.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of deleted
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  • Their efforts have successfully erased half the population from public life and made Afghanistan one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a woman.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But what frightened me most was not death alone, but the idea of dying before my writings reached the world—that my story would disappear with me, and that my feelings, my memories, my identity, and my human experience would be erased.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of erased
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  • Police also rely on outdated databases from judicial authorities, which means individuals can end up in police custody for expired or revoked arrest warrants.
    — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, citizenship may be revoked if it was illegally procured or obtained through the concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of revoked
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  • If the rule is repealed as proposed, those prohibitions will go away.
    — Dan Peck, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • However, the laws were ultimately repealed after being met with massive agitations from farmers and farmer unions, especially from Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of repealed
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  • In 2025, the US State Department removed its multi-million-dollar bounties for several key Taliban leaders who had transitionally assumed top positions within the Afghan government.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • With Boone removed from the contest and the Blue Jays already up a run, Kirk spoiled Bradley Hanner’s major league debut with a solo homer in the eighth inning.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of removed
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  • Smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980 and no longer naturally circulates, was once one of the world's deadliest diseases.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Asian giant hornet—aka murder hornet—was eradicated from Washington state and hasn’t become established here.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of eradicated

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