Rescind

Definition: Rescind

Rescind

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 "rescind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Economics

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Rescind

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Disjunction

Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate).

Refusal

Resist, cross; not grant; repel, repulse, shut the door in one's face, slam the door in one's face; rebuff; send back, send to the right about, send away with a flea in the ear; deny oneself, not be at home to; discard, spurn; (repudiate); rescind; (revoke); disclaim, protest; dissent.

Tergiversation

Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl.

Crosswords: Rescind

Business

The chamber determines whether injury to the plaintiff has occurred and the appropriate measures for compensation, but the chamber can not rescind an awarded contract. (references)

Civil Liberties

Romania

The Parliament failed to rescind the prohibitions on "defamation of the nation" and "defamation of public officials. (references)

Economic History

Syria

The UN Security Council subsequently passed a resolution calling on Israel to rescind this measure. (references)

Spain

If the author of a contract requires it be recorded in writing, and the licensee fails to draft such a contract, the author may rescind the contract. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

In 1998 the Human Rights Ombudsman called on the Government to rescind all outstanding detention orders that were more than 5 years old and to cancel all orders that did not comply with legal specifications. (references)

Bulgaria

A Constitutional Court, which is separate from the rest of the court system, is empowered to rescind legislation that it considers unconstitutional, settle disputes over the conduct of general elections, and resolve conflicts over the division of powers between the various branches of government. (references)

Trade

Cyprus

The U.S. Embassy will continue to urge the Government of Cyprus to rescind this law. (references)

Worker Rights

Turkey

The Ministry of Labor reportedly manipulated membership figures to prevent unions from acquiring bargaining rights or to rescind such rights. (references)

Turkey

The ILO has called on the Government to rescind the 10 percent rule, stating that it violates ILO Convention 98 on the Rights to Organize and Collective Bargaining. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "rescind": rescind an order. Additional references.

Albanian

shfuqizoj (abolish, abrogate, invalidate, negate, negative, nullify, repeal), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, retract, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, countermand, defeat, invalidate, invalidation, negate, nullify, repeal, repudiation, rescission, revocation, revoke, void), ‏نقض (break, countermand, dart, descend, disallow, hurl curses, negative, precipitate, rebuttal, recantation, repeal, storm, swoop, veto), ‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), анулирам (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, blank, countermand, disannul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, recall, repeal, revoke, unmake, write off). (various references)

Chinese 

废止 (Abolition, Abrogate, Abrogated, Abrogating, Abrogation, Rescinded, Rescinding, revocation). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, 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, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw), anulovat (annul, annulled, cancel, invalidate, nullify, override, reverse, revoke, scrub). (various references)

Danish

tilbagekalde trufne afgørelser (rescind the decisions taken). (various references)

Dutch

een vonnis vernietigen (to quash a judgment, to recall a judgement, to repeal a judgment, to rescind a judgment, to reverse a judgement), een vonnis herroepen,vernietigen (to rescind a judgment, to revoke a judicial decree), de gegeven beschikkingen intrekken (rescind the decisions taken). (various references)

Finnish

purkaa tuomio (to rescind a judgment, to revoke a judicial decree), kumota tuomio (to quash a judgment, to repeal a judgment, to rescind a judgment), kumota päätös (overrule a decision, to quash a judgment, to repeal a judgment, to rescind a judgment). (various references)

French

annuler (remit, repeal, reverse). (various references)

German

aufheben (abolish, abrogate, annul, break, break off, cancel, cancel out, close, dissolve, do away with, fuss, keep, lever, lift, lift off, lift up, make up for, neutralize, offset, pick up, quash, raise, remove, repeal, reserve, resolve, reverse, revoke, save up, set aside, to abolish, to abrogate, to annul, to override, to pick up, to repeal, to rescind, to suspend, unmake, void, withdrawal). (various references)

Greek 

καταργώ (abolish, abrogate, annul, do away with, negate, nullify, quash, repeal), αναιρώ (confute, negate, negative, quash, recant, refute, reverse, unsay). (various references)

Hungarian

érvénytelenít (abate, abrogate, annul, call off, cancel, disannul, invalidate, nullify, quash, to annul, to frustrate, to infirm, to invalidate, to nullify, to overrule, to rescind, to set aside, to toll, to vitiate, to void, void). (various references)

Indonesian

mencabut (abrogate, depriviate, draw, jiggle, pull, pull out, revoke, unsheathe), membatalkan (annul, countermand, delay, disqualify, nullify, postpone, quash, revoke). (various references)

Italian

rescindere (annul, avoid, cancel, terminate), annullare (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, counter, countermand, delete, dissolve, nullify, override, overrule, quash, remit, scrub, set aside, tear up, to abrogate), abrogare (abolish, abrogate, cancel, repeal, revoke, to abrogate). (various references)

Manx

cur gys neunhee (annihilate, annul, quash). (various references)

Pig Latin

escindray

Portuguese

revogar (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, deprive, determine, disaffirm, discharge from, quash, recall, remit, repeal, reverse, revoke), rescindir (abolish, annul, repeal, revoke), cancelar (annul, cancel, countermand, delete, expurgate, nullify, recall, remit, revoke), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, cancel, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disaffirm, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutron, nullify, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, reverse, revoke, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside, strike out), abolir (aboil, abolish, abrogate, annul, do away, exterminate, nullity, rid, stop, wipe out). (various references)

Romanian

revoca (countermand, dismiss, recall, repeal, revoke), anula (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate), abroga (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, nullify, remit, repeal, revoke). (various references)

Russian 

аннулировать (abate, annul, avoided, cancel, canseal, disannul, dissolve, invalidate, invalidates, nullify, override, overriden, overrode, quash, render null, vacate, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukinuti (abolish, abrogate, call off, cancel, discontinue, nullify, quash, reverse, revoke, set aside, undo). (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

återkalla (call in, racall, recall, revoke). (various references)

Thai

เพิกถอน (สัญญา, กฎหมาย). (various references)

Turkish

yürürlükten kaldırmak (abate, abrogate, dismantle, legislate away, repeal, revoke), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), geçersiz kılmak (cancel, debauch, invalidate, nullify, overrule, repeal, vitiate), feshetmek (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, countermand, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, set aside, vacate, wash out). (various references)

Ukranian 

скасовувати (abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disestablish, negative, nullify, repeal, withdraw), відміняти (abate, abolish, abrogate, avoid, bar, defeat, negative, nullify, revoke, vacate), анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, defeat, disannul, elide, null, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, undo, wash out, withdraw). (various references)

rescindentes, revocare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rescind": rescinded, rescinder, rescinders, rescinding, rescindment, rescindments, rescinds. (additional references)

Words ending with "rescind": prescind. (additional references)

Words containing "rescind": prescinded, prescinding, prescinds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rescind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brescian, Rasjid, reascend, recand, recend, recind, rescend, rescent, rescin, rescine, rescined, rescrind, resind, respind, Ressano, Riscnt, Rosand, roscian. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cinders, discern.

-1 letter: ciders, cinder, dicers, diners, rinsed, scried, snider.

-2 letters: cedis, cider, cines, cires, cried, cries, dicer, dices, diner, dines, dries, nerds, nicer, nides, reins, rends, resid, resin, riced, rices, rides, rinds, rinse, risen, scend, serin, since, sired, siren, snide.

-3 letters: cedi, cine, cire, cris, deni, dens, dice, dies, dine, dins, dire, disc, ends, erns.

+1 letter: consider, discerns, inducers, prescind, rescinds.

+2 letters: acridines, acridness, ardencies, centroids, coinsured, confiders, considers, conspired, crescendi, crimsoned, crispened, cylinders, decliners, decurions, descrying, dicentras, discerned, discerner, doctrines, incorpsed, increased, incrossed, incrusted, indicters, inscribed, prescinds, radiances, reindicts, reinduces, reinducts, rescinded, rescinder, residence, residency, riddances, screeding, snickered, stridence, stridency.

+3 letters: archfiends, chondrites, christened, conscribed, considered, coresident, corianders, cornfields, deaconries, decenaries, decreasing, describing, dicentrics, directions, directness, discarnate, discerners, discerning, disconcert, discounter, discrepant, discretion, discrowned, distincter, donnickers, dormancies, dysenteric, endarchies, endocrines, franchised, fricandoes, hindrances, indecorous, indecorums, indiscreet, inscrolled, instructed, intercedes, interdicts, introduces, iridescent, mordancies, necropsied, ordinances, prescinded, presidency, princedoms, radiancies, rancidness, recognised, reconsider, recordings, redactions, rediscount, reductions, relicensed, reminisced, rescinders, rescinding, residences, scorpaenid, scowdering, stridences, unscripted, verdancies, windscreen.

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