cancelling
['kænsəliŋ]
[] 消

[] 销, 消

1. What does she mean by cancelling her performance? ie Why has she done it?
   她消自己演什麽意?
2. Owing to the rain, the match was cancelled.
   雨，消赛。
3. Their travel plan was cancelled because of the bad weather.
   气，旅消。

Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canceled} or {Cancelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Canceling} or {Cancelling}.] [L. cancellare
to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr.
canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars,
dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. ? latticed gate. Cf.
{Chancel}.]
1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with
latticework. [Obs.]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is
the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was
scourged. --Evelyn.

2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to
exclude. [Obs.] ``Canceled from heaven.'' --Milton.

3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a
word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out
or obliterate.

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be
cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in
the form of latticework or cancelli; though the
phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of
obliterating or defacing it. --Blackstone.

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

The indentures were canceled. --Thackeray.

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created
through former secret services, by being refractory
on this occasion. --Sir W.
Scott.

5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in
type.

{Canceled figures} (Print), figures cast with a line across
the face., as for use in arithmetics.

Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge;
annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do
away; set aside. See {Abolish}.