What is "invalidating"

Usage examples of "invalidating".

To practice listening without offering any invalidating comments or solutions is, however, a big step.

Susan realized that just as he had stepped over her boundaries by treating her in disrespectful ways (such as yelling, grumbling, resisting requests, and invalidating feelings), she had not set her boundaries.

There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

Once it was discovered that he, Michael, had married the girl instead of Kevin, thereby invalidating the contract, all hell would break loose both here and in Charleston.

For he was one of those satiric sorts whose prime concern was, by invalidating all around them, to remain free.

Mystical experiences, of whatever variety, simply face no types of problems that aren't also found in ordinary experiences and ordinary communication, and the difficulties in the latter simply cannot be selectively used to invalidate the former (without simultaneously invalidating the attack itself).

Whereas Mariner fly-bys of Mercury have outdated Nourse's (and similar stories) premises without invalidating its imaginative power, similar fly-bys of Mars have confirmed Masson's premises.

Popular Assembly and procure a law invalidating the ancient procedure.

We had two people arguing over who had the correct view of the situation, over who was right—each seeking to win out over the other, even to the point of invalidating the other's confidence and to outright name calling.