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annulment

/əˈnʌl.mənt/

annulment noun: an act or instance of annulling.

Noun

annulment (countable and uncountable, plural annulments)

  1. An act or instance of annulling.
    • marriage annulment
    • grant an annulment
  2. The state of having been annulled.
  3. An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
  4. A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
    Synonyms:
    declaration of nullity
  5. (archaic) Total destruction.

annulment meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

annulment in Tamil

அழித்தறவு, ஒழிப்பு, செல்லறுத்தல், செல்லாதாக்கல் பயனற்றதாக்குதல், தள்ளறவு செய்தல் தள்ளிவைத்தல், நீக்கம்

annulment in Urdu

annulment
نسخ nasx

annulment in Bengali

annulment, abolition
লোপ lōp

Examples of annulment in a sentence

  • petition for annulment
  • The marriage was declared void by an official annulment.
  • They sought an annulment instead of a divorce.

Synonyms of annulment

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All synonyms of annulment

Forms of annulment

pluralannulments

Plural of annulment: annulments

Origin of annulment

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.

Words formed from annulment

Questions about annulment

What does annulment mean?
Annulment means an act or instance of annulling.
What is annulment in Tamil?
Annulment in Tamil is அழித்தறவு, ஒழிப்பு, செல்லறுத்தல். See Annulment meaning in Tamil.
How do you use annulment in a sentence?
petition for annulment
What part of speech is annulment?
Annulment is a noun.
How do you pronounce annulment?
Annulment is pronounced /əˈnʌl.mənt/.
What is the plural of annulment?
The plural of annulment is annulments.

Words near annulment in the dictionary

  1. annulleth
  2. annulling
  3. annullings
  4. annullities
  5. annullity
  6. annulment
  7. annulments
  8. annulo-
  9. annuloaortic
  10. annuloid
  11. annuloplasties

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: annulment (page history and authors); annulment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نسخ (Urdu) (page history and authors); লোপ (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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