annulment (noun)
1annulment — annul UK US /əˈnʌl/ verb [T] LAW ► to state officially that something such as a law, agreement, or marriage no longer exists: »The court did not annul the sentences but ruled they should be reviewed. »We will seek an early hearing in order to get …
2annulment — annul ► VERB (annulled, annulling) ▪ declare (a law, marriage, or other legal contract) invalid. DERIVATIVES annulment noun. ORIGIN Latin annullare, from nullum nothing …
3annulment — an·nul·ment /ə nəl mənt/ n 1: the act of annulling: the state of being annulled 2: a declaration by a court that a marriage is invalid compare divorce Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
4annulment — noun Date: 15th century 1. the act of annulling ; the state of being annulled 2. a judicial or ecclesiastical pronouncement declaring a marriage invalid …
5annulment — noun /əˈnʌl.mənt/ a) An act or instance of annulling. b) A state of having been annulled. Syn: abolition, nullification, cancellation …
6annulment — noun 1. the state of being cancelled or annulled • Syn: ↑revocation • Hypernyms: ↑state 2. (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) • Syn: ↑invalidation …
7annulment — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. invalidation, nullification, dissolution, divorce; see cancellation . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. invalidation, nullification, cancellation, voiding, elimination, abolishment, repeal. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An …
8annulment — /əˈnʌlmənt/ (say uh nulmuhnt) noun 1. an invalidation, as of a marriage. 2. act of annulling …
9discharge — dis·charge 1 /dis chärj, dis ˌchärj/ vt 1: to release from an obligation: as a: to relieve of a duty under an instrument (as a contract or a negotiable instrument); also: to render (an instrument) no longer enforceable a formal instrument...may… …
10annul — UK [əˈnʌl] / US verb [transitive] Word forms annul : present tense I/you/we/they annul he/she/it annuls present participle annulling past tense annulled past participle annulled to state officially that something such as a marriage, an agreement …
