annul

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈnʌl/

Verb

annul (annuls, present participle annulling; past and past participle annulled)

1. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     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.

2. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

Related terms

• (formally revoke the validity of): make or render null and void, null, nullify
• (dissolve (a marital union)): dissolve

Translations

• French: annuler
• German: annullieren
• Italian: annullare
• Portuguese: anular
• Russian: аннули́ровать
• Spanish: revocar, anular, invalidar

Translations

• German: annullieren
• Portuguese: anular
• Russian: расторга́ть
• Spanish: anular

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