Allow and Cancelled

Allow

Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

Cancelled is an antonym for allow.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Cancelled

Cancelled adjective - (of events) no longer planned or scheduled.

Allow is an antonym for cancelled in topics: erase, equal out.

Both words in one sentence

  • The project is cancelled when Stryker himself refuses to sell the movie rights, claiming "Never would he allow himself to be portrayed by Johnny Cage."
  • Useful Notes / NASA NASA also led the way with research into the Scramjet for the (now cancelled) National Aerospace Plane, and is looking into laminar airflow to allow supersonic aircraft to cruise more efficiently.
  • Devereaux didn't actually want the throne (he was told that was what his father wanted — it was really a lie created by his power hungry uncle), and Mia eventually does gain the crown by initiating a new law during her cancelled wedding to allow a queen to be crowned without being married.
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