rescind

verb
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(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they rescind
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he / she / it rescinds
🔊/rɪˈsɪndz/
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past simple rescinded
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past participle rescinded
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-ing form rescinding
🔊/rɪˈsɪndɪŋ/
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  1. rescind something to officially state that a law, contract, decision, etc. no longer has any legal force 废除;取消;撤销synonym revoke
    • The agreement was rescinded on 20 March 1993.该协定于1993年3月20日废止。
    Topics Discussion and agreementc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryRescind is used with these nouns as the object:
    • contract
    • order
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin rescindere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + scindere ‘to divide, split’.