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From Middle English annullen, from Old French anuller, from Latin annullō (“annihilate, annul”), from ad (“to”) +‎ nūllus (“none, not any”).

• Rhymes: -ʌl
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /əˈnʌl/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /əˈnɐl/
• (Northern England) IPA(key): /əˈnʊl/
• Homophone: Anal (an ethnic group in India; not to be confused with anal, which is not homophonous)

annul (third-person singular simple present annuls, present participle annulling, simple past and past participle annulled)

1. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
   Antonym: uphold
   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
     If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
2. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

• annullability

• annullable

• annuller

• annulment

• disannul

• (formally revoke the validity of): make or render null and void, null, nullify

• (dissolve (a marital union)): dissolve

• Bulgarian: отменям (bg) (otmenjam), анулирам (bg) (anuliram)

• Catalan: anul·lar (ca)

• Cherokee: ᎠᏲᏍᏙᏗ (ayosdodi)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 廢除 / 废除 (zh) (fèichú), 取消 (zh) (qǔxiāo)

• Danish: annullere (da), ophæve, slette (da)

• Dutch: annuleren (nl)

• Finnish: mitätöidä (fi), kumota (fi)

• French: annuler (fr)

• Galician: anular (gl)

• Georgian: ანულირება (anulireba)

• German: annullieren (de)

• Greek: ακυρώνω (el) (akyróno), καταργώ (el) (katargó)
  Ancient Greek: ἀναιρέω (anairéō)

• Hebrew: בִּטֵּל (bitél)

• Hindi: निरसन (hi) m (nirsan)

• Hungarian: érvénytelenít (hu)

• Irish: cuir ar ceal

• Italian: annullare (it)

• Japanese: 取り消す (ja) (とりけす, torikesu), 廃棄する (ja) (はいきする, haiki-suru)

• Latin: annūllō

• Macedonian: поништи (poništi)

• Māori: whakakāhore

• Norwegian: annullere (no), oppheve
  Bokmål: tilbakekalle

• Polish: anulować (pl)

• Portuguese: anular (pt)

• Romanian: anula (ro), revoca (ro)

• Russian: аннули́ровать (ru) impf or pf (annulírovatʹ), отменя́ть (ru) impf (otmenjátʹ), отмени́ть (ru) pf (otmenítʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian: anulirati (sh)

• Spanish: anular (es)

• Swedish: annullera (sv), ogiltigförklara (sv)

• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: ابطال ایتمك (ibtâl etmek), بوزمق (bozmak)

• Ukrainian: касува́ти (uk) impf (kasuváty), скасува́ти (uk) pf (skasuváty)

• Yiddish: אַנולירן (anulirn)

dissolve (a marital union)

• Bulgarian: разтрогвам (raztrogvam)

• Dutch: ontbinden (nl), annuleren (nl)

• Finnish: mitätöidä (fi)

• German: annullieren (de)

• Greek: ακυρώνω (el) (akyróno)

• Polish: anulować (pl) impf or pf

• Portuguese: anular (pt)

• Russian: расторга́ть (ru) impf (rastorgátʹ), расто́ргнуть (ru) pf (rastórgnutʹ)

• Spanish: anular (es)

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “annul”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Luann, Lunan