Verb
bring to naught (third-person singular simple present brings to naught, present participle bringing to naught, simple past and past participle brought to naught)
Alternative form of bring to nought
I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are. Oliver Cromwell
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. Moshe Dayan