annul
verb (used with object)
(especially of laws or other established rules, usages, etc.) to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate.
have annulled
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present perfectof annul.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Judges in Malawi have annulled last year’s elections and called for a new ballot within 150 days.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020
Just which marriage they wanted to have annulled* was at first not quite clear, since "Stash" Radziwill.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Friesland, the majority of the eleven cities, which form the fourth Quarter of the Sovereignty, have annulled the influence of the Court on the appointment of their circuits.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks
The former system would have invested them with an excessive authority, the latter would have annulled their influence altogether.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
Know thou that We have annulled the rule of the sword, as an aid to Our Cause, and substituted for it the power born of the utterance of men.
From Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
