verb
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Etymology
Origin of rescind
First recorded in 1630–40; from Latin rescindere “to tear off again, cut away,” equivalent to re- re- + scindere “to tear, divide, destroy”
Explanation
If you get a call saying a company has decided to rescind your job offer, it's back to the classifieds for you. Rescind means "to cancel or revoke." Things that are rescinded: policies, court decisions, regulations, and official statements. What all these examples have in common is that they are on the record. Also, rescind usually refers to promises instead of tangible objects. You can't rescind a shirt a friend has borrowed from you, but you can rescind your offer to loan her your jeans.
Vocabulary lists containing rescind
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Example Sentences
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Rescind all academic and university related honors and titles.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018
Rescind the championship titles, and ban the team from any post-season playoffs for five years.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2016
Rescind those decisions "within the next two days," he demanded, or the shipment of supplies to Lithuania would be stopped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Churchill in the Rescind thus writes of him:— 'Who could so nobly grace the motley list, Actor, Inspector, Doctor, Botanist?
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
Rescind Pasha, the Grand Vizier, is a man of about sixty years of age.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
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