cancel out
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Verb
cancel out (third-person singular simple present cancels out, present participle cancelling out or canceling out, simple past and past participle cancelled out or canceled out)
- (transitive) To neutralize the effect of.
- We can cancel the aberration out by adding another filter.
- 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:
- […] 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.
- (intransitive) Of two or more things: to neutralize each other's effect.
- Love and hate cancel out.
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Translations
to neutralize the effect of
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