nullify — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To make legally invalid.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

   مرادفات

   cancelvoidquash

   أمثلة

   Near-synonyms: cancel, void, quash

   The contract has been nullified.

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.

   Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.

2. To prevent from happening.

3. To make of no use or value; to cancel out.

   أمثلة

   The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish "it is fate," torporises activity and exertion.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Blowproof water has given the Navy the weapon it needed to fight fires with helicopters. Previously, the downwash from the rotor blades blew the foam, or whatever agent was being used, off the fire, nullifying its effect.

   It nullifies the night / from overkill

فعل

1. declare invalid

   مرادفات

   invalidateannulquashvoidavoid

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   cancelstrike down

   أمثلة

   The contract was annulled

   void a plea

2. show to be invalid

   مرادفات

   invalidate

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   negatecontradict

3. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

   مرادفات

   neutralizeneutralisenegate

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   weaken

   أمثلة

   Her optimism neutralizes his gloom

   This action will negate the effect of my efforts