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Idioms and Phrases
Neutralize the effect of, offset, render void. For example, Anne's kindness to her neighbor could not cancel out her irritability . The verb cancel was used in this way by itself from the late 1400s; out was added in the early 1900s.Example Sentences
“This would cancel out the entirety of the growth of Vietnam right now.”
Former Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson said cancelling out the noise would be a reason why he would go to the edge of his technical area.
Until the 79th minute, Celtic seemed likely to be left rueing the offside flag which cancelled out Nicolas Kuhn's apparent opener inside the first 30 seconds at a fervent Celtic Park.
If you can find Earthbound asteroids in space before they find us, and knock them away from our blue marble, you can effectively cancel out an entire category of natural disaster.
Murley's second try of the match was dramatically cancelled out by Cole's score with just two minutes left and Pollard's calm conversion settled the outcome as a stalemate.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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