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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command;


VERB (1)

1. cancel officially;
- Example: "He revoked the ban on smoking"
- Example: "lift an embargo"
- Example: "vacate a death sentence"
[syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Countermand \Coun"ter*mand\ (koun"t[~e]r*m[.a]nd), n.
   A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.
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         Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
         But he must die to-morrow?               --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Countermand \Coun`ter*mand"\ (koun`t[~e]r*m[.a]nd"), v. t. [imp.
   & p. p. Countermanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermanding.]
   [F. contremander; contre (L. contra) + mander to command, fr.
   L. mandare. Cf. Mandate.]
   1. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by
      giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to
      countermand an order for goods.
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   2. To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.]
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            Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric
            bodies.                               --Harvey.
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   3. To oppose; to revoke the command of.
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            For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves
            against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
                                                  --Hooker.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "countermand":
   abolish, abolishment, abolition, abrogate, abrogation, annul,
   annulment, baffle, balk, blast, brave, cancel, canceling,
   cancellation, cassation, challenge, checkmate, circumvent,
   confound, confront, contravene, counter, counteract, counterorder,
   counterwork, cross, dash, defeasance, defeat, defy, destroy,
   disannul, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disrupt,
   do away with, elude, flummox, foil, frustrate, invalidate,
   invalidation, knock the chocks, make void, nonplus, nullification,
   nullify, override, overrule, perplex, recall, recant, recantation,
   renege, repeal, rescind, rescinding, rescindment, rescission,
   retract, retraction, reversal, reverse, revocation, revoke,
   revokement, ruin, sabotage, scotch, set aside, setting aside,
   spike, spoil, stonewall, stump, suspend, suspension, thwart, upset,
   vacate, vacation, vacatur, void, voidance, voiding, waive, waiver,
   waiving, withdraw, withdrawal, write off, write-off