- Counteract - Repeal, cancel - Abrogated; abolished. - To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the
authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the
repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. - To put an end to; to do away with.
- Bring to an end - To call or bring back; to recall. - Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal;
to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special
act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law,
or the like. - To hold back; to repress; to restrain. - To draw back; to withdraw. - To call back to mind; to recollect. - To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit
led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.