annul
verbCA, US, UK /əˈnʌl/ · AU, NZ /əˈnɐl/
Etymology From Middle English annullen, from Old French anuller, from Latin annullō (“annihilate, annul”), from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“none, not any”).
1
To formally revoke the validity of.
- 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.1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
2
To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
3
To cancel out.
- They tried to reassure me but I was not able to annul my fears.
- Derived terms
- annullability, annullable, annuller, annulment, disannul