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overrule collapse: rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"

invalidate collapse: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"; show to be invalid; declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

forgive collapse: stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday"; absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"

exterminate collapse: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

uproot collapse: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"; destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"

renege collapse: fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise"

erase collapse: remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"; wipe out magnetically recorded information; remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

revoke collapse: the mistake of not following suit when able to do so; annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"; fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

countermand collapse: a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command

vacate collapse: leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"; leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"

murder collapse: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being; kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

retract collapse: use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

write off collapse: reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"; concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody; "write it off as a loss"; write something fluently, and without hesitation; cancel (a debt)

dispense collapse: grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task"

wipe out collapse: eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

override collapse: a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device; ride (a horse) too hard; counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle); prevail over; "health considerations override financial concerns"

suspend collapse: cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"; make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"; hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"; bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.; render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended"

waive collapse: do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"

recall collapse: the act of removing an official by petition; the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"; a bugle call that signals troops to return; a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador"; a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair); cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh"; summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"; cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"; make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"

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