annulment
a nuhl muhnt
- n the state of being cancelled or annulled
- n (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)
- n the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
- When Sheila got a curt notice of the annulment proceeding from the Boston archdiocese, she proceeded to fight.
- The present-day annulment is comparable to divorcing children from their parents.
- After an appeal by the former Congressman's spurned first wife, the Vatican reverses a controversial annulment.