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annulment

  • /əˈnʌl.mənt/

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Recorded since the 15th century (sense destruction); from Middle English anullement, partly from annullen (from Middle French annuller, from Latin annūllāre, from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“not any, nothing”) + verbal ending -āre) + -ment (“means to”) (from Latin -mentum) and partly from Middle French annullement. By surface analysis, annul + -ment.

noun annulments

  1. countable, uncountable An act or instance of annulling. marriage annulment

    Similar: abolition, cancellation, nullification, abrogation, annulment, deauthentication, devalidation, invalidation, renunciation, revocation, termination, vitiation

  2. countable, uncountable The state of having been annulled.
  3. countable, uncountable An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
  4. countable, uncountable A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.

    Similar: declaration of nullity

  5. archaic, countable, uncountable Total destruction.

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noun legal invalidation of a marriage

Españolanulación
中文宣告無效 /宣告无效 xuāngào wúxiào
Portuguêsanulação
Françaisannulation
DeutschNichtigerklärung

noun act or instance of annulling

Españolanulación
中文廢除 /废除 fèichú, 宣告無效 /宣告无效 xuāngào wúxiào
Portuguêsanulação
DeutschAnnullierung
Ελληνικάανάκληση anáklisi
Românăanulare
Русскийотме́на otména, аннули́рование annulírovanije, упраздне́ние uprazdnénije

noun invalidation; declaration of something as being invalid

中文宣告無效 /宣告无效 xuāngào wúxiào
Portuguêsanulação
Françaisannulation
DeutschAnnullierung
Ελληνικάακύρωση akýrosi
Românăanulare, invalidare

noun state of having been annulled

中文廢除 /废除 fèichú, 無效 /无效 wúxiào

noun total destruction

中文完全毀滅 /完全毁灭 wánquán huǐmiè, 徹底摧毀 /彻底摧毁 chèdǐ cuīhuǐ
Portuguêsaniquilação

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@misc{annulment_2026,
  title = {annulment},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/annulment},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}