noise-cancel

English

Verb

noise-cancel (third-person singular simple present noise-cancels, present participle noise-cancelling or (US) noise-canceling, simple past and past participle noise-canceled or (US) noise-canceled)

1. To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
   • 2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic‎:

     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.