Definition of nullify in English:

nullify

verbnullifies, nullified, nullifying ˈnʌlɪfʌɪˈnələˌfaɪ

[with object]

1Make legally null and void; invalidate.
使无法律效力；使无效；否定
judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions
法官们不愿意否定政府决策的合法性。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Federal Communications Commission is fielding fallout from the court decision nullifying its 30% cable ownership cap.
- ‘When you withhold funds from enforcing a decision of the Supreme Court, you are in fact nullifying a decision of the Supreme Court,’ she told reporters.
- It is no surprise that last Monday the New South Wales government announced that it proposed to nullify the majority decision by legislation.
- Scopes willingly joined ranks with the ACLU in an attempt to repeal or nullify the Butler Act.
- The court made that point as it nullified the results of a Colorado referendum that would have overturned local ordinances forbidding discrimination against homosexual citizens.
- Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it.
- The 29-year-old man has a lawsuit pending with the Tokyo District Court seeking a court decision to nullify the ministry decision.
- Her directive nullifying an earlier decision that compelled bus operators on specified routes to use the bus station has led to the abandonment of the facility.
- Not only might it nullify your complete contract, but it may also invalidate the cover of those travelling with you.
- If Inland Revenue lose, then EU states can act to nullify the decision or they can allow healthy full tax competition.
- The decision to nullify the result and call for fresh elections has been met with dismay in some quarters as it is felt it will doom the province to another three months of campaigning and another period of uncertainty.
- Well, today's Ukrainian Supreme Court decision nullifies the results of the presidential run-off election.
- Within a year bishops were before Congress urging a constitutional amendment to nullify the decision.
- An appeal was lodged against his system of proxy voting - previously validated by the JCR Executive - by the Returning Officer five minutes before the referendum was due to close, nullifying the vote.
- Those not yet enforced are likely to be nullified by the High Court decision.
- Travel policies always exclude any ‘pre-existing’ condition, but failing to disclose one could have the disastrous consequence of nullifying the entire policy.
- It would negate or nullify the property rights purchased by private investors in 1993 when New Zealand Rail was sold by the then National Government.
- The lack of employees at any point in time does not terminate, nullify or invalidate a collective agreement.
- The new law stems from a decision by the government to nullify a decision of the Court of Appeal that the Maori Land Court could hear claims relating to the recognition of customary interests.
- And the organizations say that some 300 farms are remaining because they say the evictions are invalid or have been nullified by court orders.
Synonyms
annul, declare null and void, render null and void, void, invalidate, render invalid
repeal, reverse, rescind, revoke, set aside, cancel, abolish, undo, abrogate
countermand, veto, dissolve, cast aside, do away with, bring to an end, terminate, quash, obliterate
Law vacate
archaic recall
rare disannul
1. 1.1 Make of no use or value; cancel out.
  使无用，使无价值；抵消
  insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training
  胰岛素能阻碍激素的释放，从而抵消训练的效果。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The petrol price goes up by six cents a litre today, and while there's little to be done about price increases, the good news is that you can cut down on consumption, thereby nullifying the increase, without too much effort.
  Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak.
  Nevertheless, it is possible that the association we found could be nullified or reversed by data from the 20% of people we could not trace.
  But if nothing else he gave Chris McGroaty something to think about, forcing him into more of a defensive full-back role and nullifying the threat he had posed down the flank in the first half.
  Part of the confusion, Schule added, is that special constables are essentially municipal employees, thus nullifying the need for a chief.
  Thus, he set about trying to nullify its effects.
  An age might have to elapse before there can be any returns on capital in the form of scarce minerals in minable quantities, the costs of whose transportation alone might nullify their value.
  He's hurt, he's betrayed, and as the pain hardens into bitterness, so the anger comes flowing out, nullifying everything that he thought was good and pure.
  The only way to counteract, or even nullify the effects of that drug is to take a dose of the antidote.
  With their hoodies up, they wore getaway trainers and, often, ski goggles to nullify the effects of CS gas.
  Can we develop a system of ciphers which nullifies the value of any information we contribute to the system?
  While it is true that games offering over 100% payback are rare outside Nevada, this does not nullify the value of a strategy.
  What makes some people purposely seek out dissenting and alien viewpoints and accommodate them into their thinking, while others avoid them or try at all costs to nullify them?
  If the combined effect is less than the sum of the individual effects, the relative interaction is ameliorative, competitive or the effects are said to cancel or nullify one another.
  Their continual presence metamorphosed into a part of the film's ambience; Fred Karlin, a film music expert, argues that such an adaptation thereby nullifies the audience's emotional response.
  Exercise within four hours of ingesting it and you nullify its dehydration effects.
  Additionally, should food cans be recycled in this way, then what on earth is wrong with washing them prior to their disposal, thereby nullifying this feared vermin attraction?
  This evidence does not nullify the alternative name, but it does invalidate the absolute reasoning behind the proposal.
  This is, of course, the kind of twisting of terminology that turns the meaning of a concept into its precise opposite - thereby nullifying its meaning and reality - that is the essence of Newspeak.
  The heightened security measures at ports in Kent and airports are aimed at cutting the number of illegal immigrants entering the country as well as nullifying the threat of terrorism after last week's terror attacks on America.
  Synonyms
  cancel out, neutralize, negate, render ineffective, make of no use or value
  rare negative

Derivatives

nullification

noun nʌlɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌnələfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n

Nonetheless, while I do see some quite powerful arguments in favor of jury nullification, and while I am not opposed to it, I do wonder whether there are some important practical difficulties with it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Surely, the Founders would be appalled by a popularly-elected Senate, a check on democratic majoritarianism and federal power they thought much more important than judicial nullification.
- Both understand that collaboration is accommodation, not nullification, and that the plan, while well defined, will require further design of its elements and of the buildings themselves.
- On the other hand, faced with the fate of universally inescapable destruction and nullification, we may yet finally find a way to confront it together and to find a way to coexist with all others.
- And second, how can it make sense to interpret a constitutional right - a restraint on the power of the federal government - as being subject to nullification by that very government?

nullifier

noun

In his eagerness to draw a connection between Jeffersonian states' righters, nullifiers, and secessionists, McDonald downplays the Jeffersonians' democratic commitments and casts southern secessionists as ‘libertarians.’
Example sentencesExamples
- The September 1927 Science & Invention startled subscribers when it presented the straight-faced report that a German scientist named Dr. Kowsky had successfully invented a ‘gravity nullifier.’
- Ivan dumped the alarm nullifiers onto the doorstep.
- He suggests that it was this ‘singular history and political culture’ that produced the rabid fire-eater proslavery advocates and nullifiers 150 years later.
- Disillusioned nullifiers began to envision an independent southern nation taking shape, united in the defense of slavery.

Definition of nullify in US English:

nullify

verbˈnələˌfaɪˈnələˌfī

[with object]

1Make legally null and void; invalidate.
使无法律效力；使无效；否定
judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions
法官们不愿意否定政府决策的合法性。
Example sentencesExamples
- The lack of employees at any point in time does not terminate, nullify or invalidate a collective agreement.
- Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it.
- Those not yet enforced are likely to be nullified by the High Court decision.
- ‘When you withhold funds from enforcing a decision of the Supreme Court, you are in fact nullifying a decision of the Supreme Court,’ she told reporters.
- Travel policies always exclude any ‘pre-existing’ condition, but failing to disclose one could have the disastrous consequence of nullifying the entire policy.
- Well, today's Ukrainian Supreme Court decision nullifies the results of the presidential run-off election.
- It is no surprise that last Monday the New South Wales government announced that it proposed to nullify the majority decision by legislation.
- The 29-year-old man has a lawsuit pending with the Tokyo District Court seeking a court decision to nullify the ministry decision.
- The Federal Communications Commission is fielding fallout from the court decision nullifying its 30% cable ownership cap.
- If Inland Revenue lose, then EU states can act to nullify the decision or they can allow healthy full tax competition.
- Not only might it nullify your complete contract, but it may also invalidate the cover of those travelling with you.
- Scopes willingly joined ranks with the ACLU in an attempt to repeal or nullify the Butler Act.
- Her directive nullifying an earlier decision that compelled bus operators on specified routes to use the bus station has led to the abandonment of the facility.
- The decision to nullify the result and call for fresh elections has been met with dismay in some quarters as it is felt it will doom the province to another three months of campaigning and another period of uncertainty.
- The new law stems from a decision by the government to nullify a decision of the Court of Appeal that the Maori Land Court could hear claims relating to the recognition of customary interests.
- Within a year bishops were before Congress urging a constitutional amendment to nullify the decision.
- It would negate or nullify the property rights purchased by private investors in 1993 when New Zealand Rail was sold by the then National Government.
- An appeal was lodged against his system of proxy voting - previously validated by the JCR Executive - by the Returning Officer five minutes before the referendum was due to close, nullifying the vote.
- The court made that point as it nullified the results of a Colorado referendum that would have overturned local ordinances forbidding discrimination against homosexual citizens.
- And the organizations say that some 300 farms are remaining because they say the evictions are invalid or have been nullified by court orders.
Synonyms
annul, declare null and void, render null and void, void, invalidate, render invalid
1. 1.1 Make of no use or value; cancel out.
  使无用，使无价值；抵消
  insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training
  胰岛素能阻碍激素的释放，从而抵消训练的效果。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The petrol price goes up by six cents a litre today, and while there's little to be done about price increases, the good news is that you can cut down on consumption, thereby nullifying the increase, without too much effort.
  Exercise within four hours of ingesting it and you nullify its dehydration effects.
  This evidence does not nullify the alternative name, but it does invalidate the absolute reasoning behind the proposal.
  This is, of course, the kind of twisting of terminology that turns the meaning of a concept into its precise opposite - thereby nullifying its meaning and reality - that is the essence of Newspeak.
  What makes some people purposely seek out dissenting and alien viewpoints and accommodate them into their thinking, while others avoid them or try at all costs to nullify them?
  Additionally, should food cans be recycled in this way, then what on earth is wrong with washing them prior to their disposal, thereby nullifying this feared vermin attraction?
  Nevertheless, it is possible that the association we found could be nullified or reversed by data from the 20% of people we could not trace.
  With their hoodies up, they wore getaway trainers and, often, ski goggles to nullify the effects of CS gas.
  An age might have to elapse before there can be any returns on capital in the form of scarce minerals in minable quantities, the costs of whose transportation alone might nullify their value.
  If the combined effect is less than the sum of the individual effects, the relative interaction is ameliorative, competitive or the effects are said to cancel or nullify one another.
  The only way to counteract, or even nullify the effects of that drug is to take a dose of the antidote.
  Part of the confusion, Schule added, is that special constables are essentially municipal employees, thus nullifying the need for a chief.
  He's hurt, he's betrayed, and as the pain hardens into bitterness, so the anger comes flowing out, nullifying everything that he thought was good and pure.
  But if nothing else he gave Chris McGroaty something to think about, forcing him into more of a defensive full-back role and nullifying the threat he had posed down the flank in the first half.
  Can we develop a system of ciphers which nullifies the value of any information we contribute to the system?
  Thus, he set about trying to nullify its effects.
  The heightened security measures at ports in Kent and airports are aimed at cutting the number of illegal immigrants entering the country as well as nullifying the threat of terrorism after last week's terror attacks on America.
  Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak.
  While it is true that games offering over 100% payback are rare outside Nevada, this does not nullify the value of a strategy.
  Their continual presence metamorphosed into a part of the film's ambience; Fred Karlin, a film music expert, argues that such an adaptation thereby nullifies the audience's emotional response.
  Synonyms
  cancel out, neutralize, negate, render ineffective, make of no use or value

词汇	nullify
释义	Definition of nullify in English: nullify verbnullifies, nullified, nullifying ˈnʌlɪfʌɪˈnələˌfaɪ [with object] 1Make legally null and void; invalidate. 使无法律效力；使无效；否定 judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions 法官们不愿意否定政府决策的合法性。 Example sentencesExamples The Federal Communications Commission is fielding fallout from the court decision nullifying its 30% cable ownership cap. ‘When you withhold funds from enforcing a decision of the Supreme Court, you are in fact nullifying a decision of the Supreme Court,’ she told reporters. It is no surprise that last Monday the New South Wales government announced that it proposed to nullify the majority decision by legislation. Scopes willingly joined ranks with the ACLU in an attempt to repeal or nullify the Butler Act. The court made that point as it nullified the results of a Colorado referendum that would have overturned local ordinances forbidding discrimination against homosexual citizens. Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it. The 29-year-old man has a lawsuit pending with the Tokyo District Court seeking a court decision to nullify the ministry decision. Her directive nullifying an earlier decision that compelled bus operators on specified routes to use the bus station has led to the abandonment of the facility. Not only might it nullify your complete contract, but it may also invalidate the cover of those travelling with you. If Inland Revenue lose, then EU states can act to nullify the decision or they can allow healthy full tax competition. The decision to nullify the result and call for fresh elections has been met with dismay in some quarters as it is felt it will doom the province to another three months of campaigning and another period of uncertainty. Well, today's Ukrainian Supreme Court decision nullifies the results of the presidential run-off election. Within a year bishops were before Congress urging a constitutional amendment to nullify the decision. An appeal was lodged against his system of proxy voting - previously validated by the JCR Executive - by the Returning Officer five minutes before the referendum was due to close, nullifying the vote. Those not yet enforced are likely to be nullified by the High Court decision. Travel policies always exclude any ‘pre-existing’ condition, but failing to disclose one could have the disastrous consequence of nullifying the entire policy. It would negate or nullify the property rights purchased by private investors in 1993 when New Zealand Rail was sold by the then National Government. The lack of employees at any point in time does not terminate, nullify or invalidate a collective agreement. The new law stems from a decision by the government to nullify a decision of the Court of Appeal that the Maori Land Court could hear claims relating to the recognition of customary interests. And the organizations say that some 300 farms are remaining because they say the evictions are invalid or have been nullified by court orders. Synonyms annul, declare null and void, render null and void, void, invalidate, render invalid repeal, reverse, rescind, revoke, set aside, cancel, abolish, undo, abrogate countermand, veto, dissolve, cast aside, do away with, bring to an end, terminate, quash, obliterate Law vacate archaic recall rare disannul 1.1 Make of no use or value; cancel out. 使无用，使无价值；抵消 insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training 胰岛素能阻碍激素的释放，从而抵消训练的效果。 Example sentencesExamples The petrol price goes up by six cents a litre today, and while there's little to be done about price increases, the good news is that you can cut down on consumption, thereby nullifying the increase, without too much effort. Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak. Nevertheless, it is possible that the association we found could be nullified or reversed by data from the 20% of people we could not trace. But if nothing else he gave Chris McGroaty something to think about, forcing him into more of a defensive full-back role and nullifying the threat he had posed down the flank in the first half. Part of the confusion, Schule added, is that special constables are essentially municipal employees, thus nullifying the need for a chief. Thus, he set about trying to nullify its effects. An age might have to elapse before there can be any returns on capital in the form of scarce minerals in minable quantities, the costs of whose transportation alone might nullify their value. He's hurt, he's betrayed, and as the pain hardens into bitterness, so the anger comes flowing out, nullifying everything that he thought was good and pure. The only way to counteract, or even nullify the effects of that drug is to take a dose of the antidote. With their hoodies up, they wore getaway trainers and, often, ski goggles to nullify the effects of CS gas. Can we develop a system of ciphers which nullifies the value of any information we contribute to the system? While it is true that games offering over 100% payback are rare outside Nevada, this does not nullify the value of a strategy. What makes some people purposely seek out dissenting and alien viewpoints and accommodate them into their thinking, while others avoid them or try at all costs to nullify them? If the combined effect is less than the sum of the individual effects, the relative interaction is ameliorative, competitive or the effects are said to cancel or nullify one another. Their continual presence metamorphosed into a part of the film's ambience; Fred Karlin, a film music expert, argues that such an adaptation thereby nullifies the audience's emotional response. Exercise within four hours of ingesting it and you nullify its dehydration effects. Additionally, should food cans be recycled in this way, then what on earth is wrong with washing them prior to their disposal, thereby nullifying this feared vermin attraction? This evidence does not nullify the alternative name, but it does invalidate the absolute reasoning behind the proposal. This is, of course, the kind of twisting of terminology that turns the meaning of a concept into its precise opposite - thereby nullifying its meaning and reality - that is the essence of Newspeak. The heightened security measures at ports in Kent and airports are aimed at cutting the number of illegal immigrants entering the country as well as nullifying the threat of terrorism after last week's terror attacks on America. Synonyms cancel out, neutralize, negate, render ineffective, make of no use or value rare negative Derivatives nullification noun nʌlɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌnələfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n Nonetheless, while I do see some quite powerful arguments in favor of jury nullification, and while I am not opposed to it, I do wonder whether there are some important practical difficulties with it. Example sentencesExamples Surely, the Founders would be appalled by a popularly-elected Senate, a check on democratic majoritarianism and federal power they thought much more important than judicial nullification. Both understand that collaboration is accommodation, not nullification, and that the plan, while well defined, will require further design of its elements and of the buildings themselves. On the other hand, faced with the fate of universally inescapable destruction and nullification, we may yet finally find a way to confront it together and to find a way to coexist with all others. And second, how can it make sense to interpret a constitutional right - a restraint on the power of the federal government - as being subject to nullification by that very government? nullifier noun In his eagerness to draw a connection between Jeffersonian states' righters, nullifiers, and secessionists, McDonald downplays the Jeffersonians' democratic commitments and casts southern secessionists as ‘libertarians.’ Example sentencesExamples The September 1927 Science & Invention startled subscribers when it presented the straight-faced report that a German scientist named Dr. Kowsky had successfully invented a ‘gravity nullifier.’ Ivan dumped the alarm nullifiers onto the doorstep. He suggests that it was this ‘singular history and political culture’ that produced the rabid fire-eater proslavery advocates and nullifiers 150 years later. Disillusioned nullifiers began to envision an independent southern nation taking shape, united in the defense of slavery. Definition of nullify in US English: nullify verbˈnələˌfaɪˈnələˌfī [with object] 1Make legally null and void; invalidate. 使无法律效力；使无效；否定 judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions 法官们不愿意否定政府决策的合法性。 Example sentencesExamples The lack of employees at any point in time does not terminate, nullify or invalidate a collective agreement. Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it. Those not yet enforced are likely to be nullified by the High Court decision. ‘When you withhold funds from enforcing a decision of the Supreme Court, you are in fact nullifying a decision of the Supreme Court,’ she told reporters. Travel policies always exclude any ‘pre-existing’ condition, but failing to disclose one could have the disastrous consequence of nullifying the entire policy. Well, today's Ukrainian Supreme Court decision nullifies the results of the presidential run-off election. It is no surprise that last Monday the New South Wales government announced that it proposed to nullify the majority decision by legislation. The 29-year-old man has a lawsuit pending with the Tokyo District Court seeking a court decision to nullify the ministry decision. The Federal Communications Commission is fielding fallout from the court decision nullifying its 30% cable ownership cap. If Inland Revenue lose, then EU states can act to nullify the decision or they can allow healthy full tax competition. Not only might it nullify your complete contract, but it may also invalidate the cover of those travelling with you. Scopes willingly joined ranks with the ACLU in an attempt to repeal or nullify the Butler Act. Her directive nullifying an earlier decision that compelled bus operators on specified routes to use the bus station has led to the abandonment of the facility. The decision to nullify the result and call for fresh elections has been met with dismay in some quarters as it is felt it will doom the province to another three months of campaigning and another period of uncertainty. The new law stems from a decision by the government to nullify a decision of the Court of Appeal that the Maori Land Court could hear claims relating to the recognition of customary interests. Within a year bishops were before Congress urging a constitutional amendment to nullify the decision. It would negate or nullify the property rights purchased by private investors in 1993 when New Zealand Rail was sold by the then National Government. An appeal was lodged against his system of proxy voting - previously validated by the JCR Executive - by the Returning Officer five minutes before the referendum was due to close, nullifying the vote. The court made that point as it nullified the results of a Colorado referendum that would have overturned local ordinances forbidding discrimination against homosexual citizens. And the organizations say that some 300 farms are remaining because they say the evictions are invalid or have been nullified by court orders. Synonyms annul, declare null and void, render null and void, void, invalidate, render invalid 1.1 Make of no use or value; cancel out. 使无用，使无价值；抵消 insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training 胰岛素能阻碍激素的释放，从而抵消训练的效果。 Example sentencesExamples The petrol price goes up by six cents a litre today, and while there's little to be done about price increases, the good news is that you can cut down on consumption, thereby nullifying the increase, without too much effort. Exercise within four hours of ingesting it and you nullify its dehydration effects. This evidence does not nullify the alternative name, but it does invalidate the absolute reasoning behind the proposal. This is, of course, the kind of twisting of terminology that turns the meaning of a concept into its precise opposite - thereby nullifying its meaning and reality - that is the essence of Newspeak. What makes some people purposely seek out dissenting and alien viewpoints and accommodate them into their thinking, while others avoid them or try at all costs to nullify them? Additionally, should food cans be recycled in this way, then what on earth is wrong with washing them prior to their disposal, thereby nullifying this feared vermin attraction? Nevertheless, it is possible that the association we found could be nullified or reversed by data from the 20% of people we could not trace. With their hoodies up, they wore getaway trainers and, often, ski goggles to nullify the effects of CS gas. An age might have to elapse before there can be any returns on capital in the form of scarce minerals in minable quantities, the costs of whose transportation alone might nullify their value. If the combined effect is less than the sum of the individual effects, the relative interaction is ameliorative, competitive or the effects are said to cancel or nullify one another. The only way to counteract, or even nullify the effects of that drug is to take a dose of the antidote. Part of the confusion, Schule added, is that special constables are essentially municipal employees, thus nullifying the need for a chief. He's hurt, he's betrayed, and as the pain hardens into bitterness, so the anger comes flowing out, nullifying everything that he thought was good and pure. But if nothing else he gave Chris McGroaty something to think about, forcing him into more of a defensive full-back role and nullifying the threat he had posed down the flank in the first half. Can we develop a system of ciphers which nullifies the value of any information we contribute to the system? Thus, he set about trying to nullify its effects. The heightened security measures at ports in Kent and airports are aimed at cutting the number of illegal immigrants entering the country as well as nullifying the threat of terrorism after last week's terror attacks on America. Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak. While it is true that games offering over 100% payback are rare outside Nevada, this does not nullify the value of a strategy. Their continual presence metamorphosed into a part of the film's ambience; Fred Karlin, a film music expert, argues that such an adaptation thereby nullifies the audience's emotional response. Synonyms cancel out, neutralize, negate, render ineffective, make of no use or value
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