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noise-cancel en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
    • My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too. 2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
noise-cancelled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
noise-cancelled Tense=Past UK lexicographic
noise-cancels Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
noise-cancelling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
noise-canceling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
noise-canceled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
noise-canceled Tense=Past US lexicographic