ANNUL
What does "ANNUL" mean?
To declare a law, marriage, or agreement invalid, as if it never existed.
Meanings
- To officially cancel or nullify something, treating it as never having been valid. The court agreed to annul the contract obtained by fraud. formal
Did you know?
- Annulment differs from divorce in law: a divorce ends a valid marriage, while an annulment rules that, legally, the marriage never existed at all.
Word origin
From Late Latin 'annullare', to reduce to nothing (ad- 'to' + nullum 'nothing'), via Old French 'annuller'; the same 'nullum' root gives us 'null' and 'nullify'.
Remember it
ANNUL ends in NUL - one L short of NULL, because it makes things null.
A little poem
Not torn in two, but quietly unmade-
the vow erased, the very ink unsaid.
couplet
What it teaches
To annul is to claim a thing never was; but the people who lived it always remember otherwise.
Quick facts
What does ANNUL mean?
To declare a law, marriage, or agreement invalid, as if it never existed.
Is ANNUL a valid word?
Yes — ANNUL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ANNUL?
ANNUL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ANNUL come from?
From Late Latin 'annullare', to reduce to nothing (ad- 'to' + nullum 'nothing'), via Old French 'annuller'; the same 'nullum' root gives us 'null' and 'nullify'.
What can ANNUL teach us?
To annul is to claim a thing never was; but the people who lived it always remember otherwise.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.