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cancel out

vb. (context ambitransitive English) To neutralize the effect of something.

WordNet
cancel out

v. wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" [syn: wipe out]

Usage examples of "cancel out".

If an atom has an even number of electrons, half spinning in one direction and half in the other, the magnetic effects tend to cancel out.

Now, if he picked up her bag, that would cancel out any remaining doubts.

The other three forces are either short range, or are sometimes attractive and some-times repulsive, so they tend to cancel out.

To complete the equation and cancel out these bad feelings, the viewer buys the product, a bottle or a case of XYZ.

At best summon that Marko-vian, Brazila being who could operate the Well, even cancel out Ben Yulin, New Pompeii, and anything else it wished.

We might find that if we only have to deal with one set of waves, the effect on magic would be temporary and can be shielded against for a time if we can just cancel out the Dhorisha waves.

Corleone, I'm terribly sorry to have to cancel out on the wedding you had planned for the cathedral next month.

It sliced through the cab with hardly any drag at all, breaking inter-crystalline and not the tougher molecular bonds, barely leaving a mark on metal and plastic because they re-welded themselves on the Johanssen principle before air could get at the interfaces and cancel out their natural adhesion.

The two might cancel out, her positive vision and his negative one, leaving the future in serious doubt.

Somebody or something wanted to lair in a region where disturbances tended to cancel out.