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tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents)
  1. 1 tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents), destruction
  2. 2 annulment, cancellation, abrogation, voiding, breaking (e.g. a treaty)
  3. 3 reversal (of an original ruling on appeal), quashing
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • They called off their engagement.

    sense 2 · annulment

  • With respect to these documents, I think the best thing is to destroy them.

    sense 1 · tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents)

  • The actress tore up her contract angrily.

    sense 2 · annulment

  • I regard the contract as having been broken.

    sense 2 · annulment

  • She broke off her engagement in a fit of anger.

    sense 2 · annulment

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