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negate
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. be in contradiction with [syn: contradict , belie ] deny the truth of [syn: contradict , contravene ] prove negative; show to be false [syn: contradict ] [ant: confirm ] make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1795 (with an isolated use from 1620s), back-formation from negation , or else from Latin negatus , past participle of negare . Related: Negated ; negates ; negating .
Usage examples of negate.
Part of this desirable alkalizing effect would be negated if the stomach were to continue to produce its own acid secretions at a great rate after the food had left it.
Of course, what culture is actually negating is biocentric and egocentric perception, and this the divine ego will not countenance.
But being winged in middle-age, after a lifetime of walking the ground, negated any diminuation in the wonder effect.
Now that they were being raised, it was clear that this barrier had helped negate the repulsive force, for the hemispheres simply could not be brought within fifty feet of each other.
Fourth Amendment but is a judicially created rule of evidence which Congress might negate.
Spital-fields blindfolded, and in so doing utterly negating his badinage about lost channels and collisions with lighters with which he had wheedled from me two poxy shillings.
He took the drug before all the unpleasant side effects of the reovirus had been negated.
Over-Soul, the World Soul, it is not that individuality disappears, but thatonce againit is negated and preserved in a deeper and wider ground, a ground that conspicuously includes all of nature and its glories.
Just as in the context of the dominant countries, here too the multiplicity and singularity of the multitude are negated in the straitjacket of the identity and homogeneity of the people.
Ross cultivated a certain preciosity of speech as though he were anxious to negate the stevedore image.
Ever since he had escaped the trap in the village he had been frantically trying to devise a way to negate the inevitable results of the riot, and of being seen--the samurai officer would surely realize a shishi was loose in the Settlement.
He was well aware that unforeseen unforeseeable circumstances might negate his purpose, and bring him trouble, disgrace, or worse.
In the case of Lady Macbeth, her eventual madness is the index of the very humanity she would negate by turning herself into a pure and untrammeled role, the residue of an untransmuted humanity that had sought boldness in drink and was checked by remembered filial ties before performing the act that should have been second nature.
It was still basically a Flux area and anything done to it now would simply be negated by his people when the big amps arrived.
A simple system, and, yet, one Boolean could do nothing about without negating the duplication as well, and one that would make our quarry stand out in our society and, not incidentally, would prevent the natural experimentation that might have resulted in a pregnancy.