cancel out

Verb

Meaning

wipe out the effect of something

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Synonyms

nullify wipe out negative balance destroy counter offset compensate oppose cancel void foil ruin undermine wreck
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Antonyms

support help aid build advance promote
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Hypernyms

eliminate extinguish get rid of do away with

Examples

The new tax effectively cancels out my raise Source: Internet

The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record Source: Internet

Dimensionless quantities are often obtained as products or ratios of quantities that are not dimensionless, but whose dimensions cancel out in the mathematical operation. Source: Internet

Bessel also showed that if the pendulum was made symmetrical in form about its center, but was weighted internally at one end, the errors due to air drag would cancel out. Source: Internet

Electromagnetic forces are tremendously stronger than gravity but cancel out so that for large bodies gravity dominates. Source: Internet

However, the node and the anti-node collide in the same spot and cancel out the fundamental. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cancel charges cancel culture cancel enrolment of cancel process cancel relations cancel relationship