uninfluence

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The lack or absence of influence.

   • Such experiment was devoted to reveal the influence (or uninfluence) of the terrestrial motion on the speed of light.
   • Additional advantages of postmortem imaging are its noninvasive nature, the uninfluence of radiation dosing, the reasonably brief time of execution, and the ability to detect alterations that may not be apparent on traditional autopsies.
2. 2

   To exert no influence (on).

   • How a minute dose should thus affect a paralyzed nerve, while it uninfluences it in its ordinary state, is a phenomenon we cannot explain.
3. 3

   To remove or undo the influence of.

   • Indeed, this is one of the best ways to uninfluence people and lose friends.
   • U.S. advertising agencies and businessmen were criticized last Tuesday (Feb. 10) for helping to "uninfluence people" in Europe and around the world, and for fostering the alienation people in other lands have for the U.S.

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