nullify

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make legally invalid.

   • Near-synonyms: cancel, void, quash
   • The contract has been nullified.
   • [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.
2. 2

   To prevent from happening.

3. 3

   To make of no use or value

   To make of no use or value; to cancel out.

   • The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish "it is fate," torporises activity and exertion.
   • Blowproof water has given the Navy the weapon it needed to fight fires with helicopters. Previously, the downwash from the rotor blades blew the foam, or whatever agent was being used, off the fire, nullifying its effect.
   • It nullifies the night / from overkill

The neighborhood

• neighborannihilate
• neighbornull
• neighbornull and void
• neighbornullifiable
• neighbornullification