cancelled.
No longer planned or scheduled.
Meaning & usage
No longer planned or scheduled.
The cancelled show would have drawn some 5,000 fans.
Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.
Most of the cancelled specimens were somewhat less valuable philatelically.
Socially censured in a way expected to be durable rather than transient. Or, otherwise a permanent and irrevocable state of social isolation, esp. from interactive media.
On the question of rehabilitation for cancelled celebrities, the nature of the offence is relevant: a bad day is different from a life of abusive crime.
simple past and past participle of cancel
The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.
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