cancelled Definition

cancel
verb cancelled, cancelling

1. To stop (something already arranged) from taking place, by an official announcement, etc; to call off.
2. To stop (something in progress) from continuing.
intr
3. To withdraw from an engagement, etc.
4. To tell a supplier that one no longer wants something.
5. To put an end to (an existing arrangement, rule, law, etc).

Thesaurus: abort, repeal, nullify, strike, delete, annul, eliminate, erase, abolish, neutralize, revoke, scrub (slang).
6. To delete or cross out something.
7. To put an official stamp on (eg a cheque or postage stamp) so that it cannot be reused.
8. math.
To eliminate (common numbers or terms), especially to strike out (equal quantities) from opposite sides of an equation, or (common factors) from the numerator and denominator of a fraction.
9. To remove the effect of it, by having an exactly opposite effect; to counterbalance.

Form: cancel something out (usually)
10. computing.
To stop (a process) before or shortly after it has started.

noun

1. The suppression of a printed leaf or sheet.
2a. The leaf or sheet so cancelled;
2b. More usually, the new one substituted.

Etymology: 14c: from French canceller, from Latin cancellare to cross out.