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cancel someone out of something

 and cancel someone out 

1. to eliminate someone from something (as from a list of names). We had to cancel them out. We canceled out all the people who did not show up.

2. Sl. to eliminate someone; to kill someone. The drug lord threatened to cancel out his former partner for testifying against him.

See also: cancel, of, out