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cancel out

verb

Definitions

  1. To neutralize the effect of.

    • We can cancel the aberration out by adding another filter.
    • […] 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.
    • The lead was cancelled out when Owen nodded in from close range.

  2. Of two or more things

    Of two or more things: to neutralize each other's effect.

    • Love and hate cancel out.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cancel out. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA