rescind

UK/ɹɪˈsɪnd/US/ɹɪˈsɪnd/

verbC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,449 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: rescinded, rescinding, rescinds

To rescind is to cancel an order or a decision officially. Rescind the offer, the order was rescinded, rescind the invitation.

It cancels as though the thing had never been made rather than merely ending it, which is why a rescinded job offer leaves nothing behind. It is formal and belongs to organisations rather than to people. The Latin means to cut back.

Definitions of rescind

1verbrescindTo cancel an order or a decision officially.C1
“The council rescinded the ban on dogs in the park after many complaints.”

rescind is a cancelling.

Where it comes from

Latin rescindere means to cut back — re, back, plus scindere, to cut. Scissors is a relative.

Proto-Indo-European
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Latin
rescindō — to cut back
English, today
rescind

Built from

re- · Latin — back
scindō · Latin — to cut

From the Latin rescindō (“to cut back”), from re- (“back”) + scindō (“to cut”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

rescind in the wild

Through a combination of demonstrations and violent actions, including the destruction of many of these tax gantries, the movement forced the French government to rescind the tax.
Bonnets Rouges
On his election, President Donald Trump vowed to end the DACA, and the DHS rescinded the program in June 2017.
Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California
As a result, AWS was able to rescind their contract and claim damages.
Spice Girls Ltd v Aprilia World Service BV

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the scindō family

scissors

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