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blight

verb. ruin, destroy

wreck

cancel

verb. equal out

verb. offset, make up for

defeat

verb. frustrate

deny

verb. disagree, renounce, decline

verb. demolish, devastate

erase

verb. remove; rub out

foil

verb. circumvent, nip in the bud

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Word Origin & History

nullify 1595, from L.L. nullificare "to esteem lightly, despise, to make nothing," from L. nullus "not any" (see null) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Nullification in U.S. political sense of "a state's refusing to allow a federal law to be enforced" is first attested 1798, in Thomas Jefferson, from L.L. nullificationem (nom. nullificatio) "a making as nothing."

Example Sentences for nullify

The ray does more than nullify gravity—can be made to reverse gravity!

Nor did he try to gloss over or strive to nullify his own dishonorable actions.

It was his duty to nullify this mutiny if he could, and therefore he turned to the men again.

Nothing could nullify it, nothing could take it away; it was almost their belief in life.