countermand

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“to order; to command”).

“Countermand your orders!” I cried. — The gods of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
They had a feeling that because of an error in the plans they had been sent forward without supports; that they--a puny handful--were to be sacrificed under the haunches of the Hindenburg line while all those thousands of others who should have been their companions upon this adventure bided safely behind, held back by the countermand which through some hideous blunder had failed to reach them in time. — From Place to Place, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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