cancel out en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To neutralize the effect of.
The lead was cancelled out when Owen nodded in from close range.
2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:We can cancel the aberration out by adding another filter.
[…] there is every likelihood that the current pattern of increase would eventually cancel out each expensive improvement, as has happened with the ten-car scheme.
1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:
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(intransitive) Of two or more things: to neutralize each other's effect.
Love and hate cancel out.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cancelled out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| cancelled out | Tense=Past | UK | lexicographic |
| canceled out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| canceled out | Tense=Past | US | lexicographic |
| cancels out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| cancelling out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| canceling out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
Coordinates
counteract · counterbalance · counter · negate · countervail
Synonyms
Translations (4)
it escludersi (to neutralize the effect of) · pt anular (to neutralize the effect of) · pl znosić się wzajemnie (to neutralize the effect of) · pl znieść się wzajemnie (to neutralize the effect of)