nullify — Dicionário de inglês

Verbo

1. To make legally invalid.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinônimos

   cancelvoidquash

   Exemplos

   Near-synonyms: cancel, void, quash

   The contract has been nullified.

   Mais exemplos (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.

   Exemplos

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

   Mais exemplos (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

Verbo

1. declare invalid

   Sinônimos

   invalidateannulquashvoidavoid

   Termos mais gerais

   cancelstrike down

   Exemplos

   The contract was annulled

   void a plea

2. show to be invalid

   Sinônimos

   invalidate

   Termos mais gerais

   negatecontradict

3. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

   Sinônimos

   neutralizeneutralisenegate

   Termos mais gerais

   weaken

   Exemplos

   Her optimism neutralizes his gloom

   This action will negate the effect of my efforts