Communication
Synonyms for cancel
Synonyms for cancel: invalidate, delete and offset. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for cancel
Interchangeable with cancel in this sense
Audited under cancel's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one cancel carries in that sense.
- invalidateverb, in the sense "make invalid for use"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name cancel as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under cancel's own sense. The second reach cancel from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
make invalid for use
Cancel cheques or tickets.
The true synonym
invalidate
Same sentence, swapped: Invalidate cheques or tickets.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- scratch
- delete
- balance
Where cancel turns up in the game
cancel is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where cancel is the trap
- deferverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is postpone, in the sense "to put off an action until a later time", and cancel is one of the three tiles that lose.
- vacationnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is holiday, in the sense "leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure", with cancel sitting one tile away.
- adjustverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is adapt, in the sense "adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions", with cancel sitting one tile away.
- scratchverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rub, in the sense "scrape or rub as if to relieve itching", and cancel is on the board beside it.
Play cancel
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cancel reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because communication is the company cancel keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cancel carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.