calling off

The phrase “calling off” has 3 syllables: call-ing off

It's pronounced as /ˈkɔːlɪŋ ɒf/


What is synonym and antonym for calling off?

In the thesaurus, “calling off” has 79 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for calling off along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for calling off

Antonyms for calling off

  • beginning
  • commencement
  • commencing
  • concentrating
  • continuation
  • continuing
  • engagement
  • engaging
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • initiating
  • initiation
  • keeping
  • pledging
  • promising
  • starting
  • taking on
  • taking up
  • undertaking

Example Sentences

  • Due to the inclement weather, the organizers decided to calling off the outdoor concert.
  • The negotiators were close to reaching an agreement before abruptly calling off the talks.
  • The referee had no choice but to calling off the match due to the unsafe playing conditions.
  • After hours of searching, they finally decided to calling off the search for the missing hiker until daylight.
  • The CEO reluctantly announced that the merger deal was calling off due to unforeseen complications.

On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to calling off, such as: abandon, abandoning, abandonment, abolishment, abolition, abort, aborting.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

cancelling

  • X-out
  • abandoning
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abolish
  • abolishing
  • abort
  • aborting
  • abrogate
  • abrogating
  • annihilating
  • annul
  • annulling
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • ax
  • balance out
  • banning
  • black out
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blot out
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • break
  • break off
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • call off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • compensate for
  • consuming
  • counteract
  • counterbalance
  • countercheck
  • countermand
  • countermanding
  • counterpoise
  • cropping
  • cross out
  • crying off
  • cut
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • declare invalid
  • deface
  • deleing
  • delete
  • deleting
  • demolishing
  • destroy
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discard
  • discarding
  • discharge
  • discontinuing
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • do away with
  • do in
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • efface
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliding
  • eliminate
  • eliminating
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicate
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunge
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finish off
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • frustrate
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • ignore
  • interrupting
  • invalidate
  • invalidating
  • jettisoning
  • kill
  • killing
  • killing off
  • laundering
  • liquidating
  • make up for
  • negate
  • negating
  • neutralize
  • nullify
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterate
  • obliterating
  • off
  • offset
  • omit
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • put an end to
  • quash
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recant
  • recanting
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • redeem
  • redress
  • refute
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • remove
  • removing
  • render inert
  • render invalid
  • render null and void
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiate
  • rescind
  • rescinding
  • retract
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoke
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rub out
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • rule out
  • scrapping
  • scratch out
  • scrub
  • scrubbing
  • set aside
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • shortening
  • silencing
  • sink
  • smash
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • squash
  • stamp across
  • stopping
  • strike out
  • striking down
  • suppress
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • torpedo
  • total
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trash
  • trim
  • undo
  • vacate
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • void
  • voiding
  • wash out
  • wasting
  • wipe out
  • wipe slate clean
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zap
  • zapping

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

calling

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abortion
  • abrogating
  • accounting
  • alerting
  • amassing
  • announcing
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • anticipating
  • appointment
  • art
  • asking
  • assembling
  • assignment
  • auguring
  • baptising
  • baptizing
  • bawling
  • baying
  • beckoning
  • beeping
  • believing
  • bellowing
  • berth
  • bidding
  • billet
  • boding
  • branding
  • breaking off
  • business
  • buzzing
  • calculating
  • call
  • calling for
  • calling in
  • calling off
  • calling out
  • calling up
  • cancelation
  • canceling
  • cancellation
  • cancelling
  • career
  • caterwauling
  • cautioning
  • christening
  • citing
  • cleping
  • code-naming
  • cold-calling
  • collecting
  • coming by
  • coming over
  • commanding
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • considering
  • convening
  • convoking
  • countermanding
  • counting
  • craft
  • crowing
  • crying
  • crying off
  • day gig
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • deducing
  • deeming
  • demanding
  • denominating
  • denoting
  • designating
  • dialing
  • dialling
  • dictating
  • directing
  • discontinuing
  • divining
  • do
  • dodge
  • dropping
  • dropping by
  • dropping in
  • dubbing
  • duty
  • employment
  • ending
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • entitling
  • esteeming
  • estimating
  • extrapolating
  • fancying
  • feeling
  • field
  • figuring
  • forboding
  • foreboding
  • forecasting
  • foreknowing
  • foreseeing
  • foretelling
  • forewarning
  • frequenting
  • function
  • gaging
  • game
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • gig
  • giving up
  • go
  • grouping
  • guessing
  • hailing
  • hallooing
  • halting
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • hang
  • haunting
  • heralding
  • holding
  • holding back
  • hollering
  • holloing
  • howling
  • imagining
  • inferring
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • job
  • judging
  • knelling
  • labeling
  • labelling
  • lay
  • lifework
  • line
  • livelihood
  • living
  • load
  • looking up
  • making
  • mandating
  • metier
  • miscalling
  • misnaming
  • mission
  • mistitling
  • mustering
  • naming
  • neutralization
  • nicknaming
  • nine-to-five
  • nominating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • occupation
  • office
  • ordaining
  • ordering
  • paging
  • petitioning
  • phoning
  • place
  • placing
  • play
  • portending
  • position
  • post
  • predicting
  • presaging
  • proclaiming
  • profession
  • prognosticating
  • promising
  • prophesying
  • province
  • pursuit
  • putting
  • racket
  • rallying
  • rat race
  • rating
  • reading
  • reasoning
  • reassembling
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • rechristening
  • recision
  • reckoning
  • reconvening
  • regarding
  • relabeling
  • relabelling
  • relinquishing
  • relinquishment
  • renaming
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • requisitioning
  • rescinding
  • rescission
  • retracting
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • ringing
  • roaring
  • rollback
  • rolling back
  • rounding up
  • running in
  • scrapping
  • screaming
  • screeching
  • scrubbing
  • seeing
  • sending for
  • sensing
  • setting down
  • shouting
  • shrieking
  • shrilling
  • singing
  • situation
  • slot
  • sounding off
  • speaking out
  • speaking up
  • specifying
  • squeaking
  • squealing
  • stepping in
  • stigmatizing
  • stopping
  • styling
  • subpoenaing
  • summoning
  • supposing
  • surnaming
  • surrender
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • swindle
  • tagging
  • taking back
  • taking for
  • task
  • telephoning
  • terminating
  • termination
  • terming
  • thinking
  • thundering
  • titling
  • trade
  • ululating
  • understanding
  • vaticinating
  • viewing
  • visiting
  • vocation
  • vociferating
  • voidance
  • voiding
  • wailing
  • walk of life
  • warning
  • whistling
  • whooping
  • withdrawing
  • work
  • workload
  • writing off
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yelling
  • yowling

canceling

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • cancellation
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crossing out
  • crying off
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • discontinuing
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disregarding
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliding
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excepting
  • excising
  • excluding
  • expelling
  • expunction
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • ignoring
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • laundering
  • liquidating
  • missing
  • negating
  • neglecting
  • not including
  • not naming
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overlooking
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • passing over
  • powdering
  • precluding
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • scrapping
  • scratching out
  • scrubbing
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • shortening
  • silencing
  • slighting
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • withholding
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

abstracting

  • abridging
  • amusing
  • beguiling
  • boiling down
  • briefing
  • calling off
  • concentrating
  • condensing
  • consolidating
  • curtailing
  • cutting back
  • decocting
  • detracting
  • digesting
  • distracting
  • diverting
  • downsizing
  • encapsulating
  • entertaining
  • epitomizing
  • essentializing
  • outlining
  • recapitulating
  • recapping
  • reprising
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • simplifying
  • straying
  • streamlining
  • summarizing
  • summing up
  • synopsizing
  • throwing off
  • wandering
  • wrapping up

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