Countermand

Definition: Countermand

Countermand

Verb

1. Annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "countermand" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Synonyms: Countermand

Abrogation

Countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.

Counter order, countermand; repudiation, retraction,

Crosswords: Countermand

Afrikaans

afsê (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Albanian

urdhër anulimi, kundërurdhër. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, defeat, invalidate, invalidation, negate, nullify, repeal, repudiation, rescind, rescission, revocation, revoke, void), ‏نقض (break, dart, descend, disallow, hurl curses, negative, precipitate, rebuttal, recantation, repeal, rescind, storm, swoop, veto), ‏نسخ (copy, duplication, engross, mimeograph, reduplicate, reproduce, reproduction, supersede, transcribe, transcription), ‏ألغى أمر, ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оттеглям (back down, detach, haul off, pull away, retire, retract, retreat, withdraw), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), анулирам (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, blank, disannul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke, unmake, write off). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�回命令 (Countermanded, Countermanding). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw), odvolání (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, appeal, recall, recantation, remedy, repeal, rescission, retractility, retraction, revocation, withdrawal). (various references)

Danish

sende afbud (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), abbestellen (cancel). (various references)

Dutch

afbestellen (cancel). (various references)

Esperanto

malmendi (cancel), kontraŭmendi (cancel). (various references)

Farsi 

فسخ کردن (Cancel, Disannul, Dissolve, Terminate), ممنوع کردن (Bar, Debar, Prohibit), لغوکردن (Abrogate, Annul, Cancel, Disannul, Nullify, Repeal, Revoke), برگرداندن حکم صادره . (various references)

French

contremander, annuler. (various references)

Frisian

ôfsizze (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), ôfbestelle (cancel). (various references)

German

widerrufen (cancel, recant, retract, revoke, revoked, to revoke, unsay, withdraw), abbestellen (cancel, cancel a booking, discontinue, stop, to countermand). (various references)

Greek 

ανακαλώ (abrogate, annul, call off, recall, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke), αντιδιατάσσω, αντιδιαταγή. (various references)

Hebrew 

לבטל פקו�"�". (various references)

Hungarian

visszarendel, parancsot felülbírál, korábbi rendelkezés visszavonása. (various references)

Indonesian

membatalkan (annul, delay, disqualify, nullify, postpone, quash, rescind, revoke). (various references)

Italian

annullare un ordine (cancel). (various references)

Korean 

명� �취소. (various references)

Manx

noi-oardaghey, noi-oardagh (cancellation), aa-oardaghey, aa-oardagh (repeat order). (various references)

Pig Latin

ountermandcay

Portuguese

contra-ordem. (various references)

Romanian

contraordin (counter-order), contramanda (call off, cancel, remand), revoca (dismiss, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke). (various references)

Russian 

контрприказ. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poništiti (abolish, annul, cancel, defeat, foreclose, invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, unmake, void), poništenje (abolishment, annulment, avoid, avoidance, cancellation, cassation, defeasance, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, recession, repeal, rescission, vitiation). (various references)

Spanish

contramandar (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, avoid, cancel, defeat, destroy, discontinue, invalidate, negate, negative, nullify, override, overrule, overturn, quash, remit, repudiate, rescind, revoke, ring finger, scrub, set aside, undo, void, write off). (various references)

Swedish

kontramandering, kontramandera, avbeställning (cancellation), avbeställa (cancel). (various references)

Turkish

iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), iptâl emri, feshetmek (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate, wash out), emri geçersiz saymak, önceki emri geçersiz kılan emir. (various references)

Ukrainian

скасування розпорядження, контрнаказ, відкликати (call away, call off, cancel, recall, revoke, withdraw), відміняти наказ. (various references)

Vietnamese 

phản lệnh sự huỷ bỏ đơn đặt h� ng. (various references)

mandare. (various references)

contremander. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "countermand": countermanded, countermanding, countermands. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Countermand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: centresand, counterband. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: counterman.

-2 letters: adornment, mucronate, outmanned, undercoat.

-3 letters: aeroduct, amounted, cantoned, cartoned, cornuted, courante, democrat, document, educator, nocturne, nonrated, normande, ordnance, ornament, outdance, outdream, outraced, outrance, romanced, routeman, trounced, unatoned, uncoated, uncrated, underact, undreamt, unornate, untraced.

-4 letters: automen, candent, candour, caromed, centaur, centrum, comrade, condemn, connate, contemn, contend, cordate, cornute, counted, counter, courant, courted, crunode.

+1 letter: countermands.

+2 letters: counterdemand, countermanded, documentarian.

+3 letters: counterdemands, countermanding, documentarians, nondocumentary, unromanticized.

+4 letters: nonmatriculated.

+5 letters: antireductionism, nondocumentaries.