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cancel out



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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.
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Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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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In the wider group accounts the made-up money is cancelled out by the IOU that Draycote issued, so it is only the balance sheet of the regulated water company, Severn Trent Water, that is inflated.

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It's the same idea: Give men extra votes, so they can cancel out women's votes.

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