Absolutely. That's why I posted the question, belm'. I don't understand onelook.com's definitions for ante up because it appears that the definitions mean a cancellation as you have written. However, there may be some usage somewhere in which to cancel a debt would mean to repay it and to discharge a debt would mean the same. I just have never heard the verbs so used, and thought I would ask here. If to cancel and to discharge cannot mean to repay or remove, then it appears onelook.com could be in error.