
Annul
Legal Endings
Annul is often used to describe the legal end of agreements, as if they never existed.
They moved to annul the lease agreement.
Irreversible Process
'Annul' usually implies a final, irreversible action, with no chance to revert it.
Once their marriage was annulled, it was as if it never happened.
Not for Errors
Use 'annul' for formal cancellations, not for correcting everyday mistakes.
The company cannot simply annul an order because of a pricing mistake. Compare with
AbolishAbrogateCancelInvalidateNegateNullifyQuashRepealRescindRevokeVoid
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