annul

English

From Middle English annullen, from Old French anuller, from Latin annullō (“annihilate, annul”), from ad (“to”) +‎ nūllus (“none, not any”).

Rhymes: -ʌl
IPA^(key): /əˈnʌl/
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Homophone: Anal (an ethnic group in India; not to be confused with anal, which is not homophonous)

annul (third-person singular simple present annuls, present participle annulling, simple past and past participle annulled)

(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
- 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience:
  If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
(transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

formally revoke the validity of

Bulgarian: отменям (bg) (otmenjam), анулирам (bg) (anuliram)
Catalan: anul·lar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎠᏲᏍᏙᏗ (ayosdodi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 廢除／废除 (zh) (fèichú), 取消 (zh) (qǔxiāo)
Danish: annullere (da), ophæve
Dutch: annuleren (nl)
Finnish: mitätöidä (fi), kumota (fi)
French: annuler (fr)
Galician: anular (gl)
German: annullieren (de)
Greek: ακυρώνω (el) (akyróno), καταργώ (el) (katargó)
Ancient: ἀναιρέω (anairéō)
Hebrew: בִּטֵּל‎ (bitél)
Hungarian: érvénytelenít (hu)
Italian: annullare (it)
Japanese: 取り消す (ja) (とりけす, torikesu), 廃棄する (ja) (はいきする, haiki-suru)
Latin: annūllō
Maori: whakakāhore
Norwegian: annullere (no), oppheve
Bokmål: tilbakekalle
Polish: anulować (pl)
Portuguese: anular (pt)
Romanian: anula (ro), revoca (ro)
Russian: аннули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (annulírovatʹ), отменя́ть (ru) impf (otmenjátʹ), отмени́ть (ru) pf (otmenítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: anulirati (sh)
Spanish: revocar (es), anular (es), invalidar (es)
Swedish: annullera (sv)
Ukrainian: касува́ти (uk) impf (kasuváty), скасува́ти (uk) pf (skasuváty)
Yiddish: אַנולירן‎ (anulirn)

dissolve (a marital union)