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RESCIND

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rescind mean?

• RESCIND (verb)
The verb RESCIND has 1 sense:

1. annul by recalling or rescinding

Familiarity information: RESCIND used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RESCIND (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Annul by recalling or rescinding

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

countermand; repeal; rescind; annul; revoke; vacate; reverse; overturn; lift

Context examples:

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

Hypernyms (to "rescind" is one way to...):

cancel; strike down (declare null and void; make ineffective)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rescind"):

go back on; renege; renege on; renegue on (fail to fulfill a promise or obligation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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