Nullify

Definitions: Nullify

Nullify

Verb

1. Declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "avoid a plea".

2. Show to be invalid.

3. Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom".

Date "nullify" was first used: sometime in the late 16th century. (references)

Note: Nullify \Nul"li*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Nullified; present participle verb or noun Nullifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Nullify

Synonyms: annul (v), avoid (v), invalidate (v), neutralise (v), neutralize (v), quash (v), void (v). (additional references)

Antonym: validate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Abrogation	Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.
Compensation	Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone).
Destruction	Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.
Inexistence	Annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate; destroy; take away; remove; (displace); obliterate, extirpate.
Nonobservance	Discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel; (wipe off).
Nonpayment	Protest, dishonor, repudiate, nullify, refuse payment.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Nullify

English words defined with "nullify": air defense ♦ Circumduct, counteraction ♦ invalidator ♦ neutralisation, neutralization, nullifier, Nullifying ♦ Right of nullification ♦ voider. (references)

Etymologies containing "nullify": Nullification. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Hearing on Executive Order 12954 and H.R. 1176, to nullify the Executive Order prohibiting federal contracts with companies that hire permanent replacements for striking workers : hearing before the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, Hou (reference) The vanishing rights of the states : a discussion of the right of the Senate to nullify the action of a sovereign state in the selection of its representatives in the Senate (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Nicaragua	At year's end, the CSJ still had not decided on the legality of the Government's May 2000 decision to nullify the citizenship application of former Minister of Defense, Jose Antonio Alvarado. (references)
Economic History	Colombia	Several cases exist in which U.S. firms have won arbitration awards, but have seen the loser try to avoid or at least delay payment by seeking to nullify the award in Colombia's court system. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	The ruling is expected to nullify the military tribunal's conviction. (references)
Political Economy	BELGIUM	The Belgian courts have the power to nullify a patent if the court feels that the patent does not meet the Novelty and Non-obvious specifications. (references)
Trade	Australia	While not inconsistent with the GATT/WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation, the amended Australian law may impair or nullify tariff concessions on products that are exported on an ex-factory basis. (references)
Women	El Salvador	Criminal Code reforms in February eliminated a provision allowing a victim's pardon to nullify the criminal charge. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Nullify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Nullify" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90.91%	50	48,117
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.09%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	55	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "nullify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shfuqizoj (abolish, abrogate, invalidate, negate, negative, repeal, rescind), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw). (various references)

Arabic		‏فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, countermand, defeat, invalidate, invalidation, negate, repeal, repudiation, rescind, rescission, revocation, revoke, void), ‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate), ‏أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, ruin, scotch, scuttle, torpedo), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian		унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), обезсилвам (enervate, enfeeble, invalidate, negate), неутрализирам (counteract, kill, negative, neutralize), анулирам (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, blank, countermand, disannul, invalidate, negate, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke, unmake, write off). (various references)

Chinese		使� 效 (Nulled, Nullified, Nullifying). (various references)

Czech		zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), anulovat (annul, annulled, cancel, invalidate, override, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub). (various references)

Danish		stof, som ophæver andet stofs virkning (antagonist, substance tending to nullify effects of another). (various references)

Dutch		het voornaamste doel van een boorseriecompensator is het effect te niet te doen dat door dompen van het boorschip op de boorserie zou worden teweeggebracht (the major application for a drill string compensator(DSC)is to nullify rig heave that would be imposed on the drill string). (various references)

Farsi		لغوکردن (Abrogate, Annul, Cancel, Countermand, Disannul, Repeal, Revoke), بی اثرکردن (Counteract, Deactivate, Enervate, Undo, Void). (various references)

Finnish		kumota (annul, cancel, overthrow, refute, repeal, revoke, turn, turn over, upset), julistaa mitättömäksi (annul, concel). (various references)

French		invalider, infirmer, avorter, annuler. (various references)

German		für null und nichtig erklären (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), für null erklären, annullieren (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, dissolve, quash, remit, rescind, revoke). (various references)

Greek		καταργώ (abolish, abrogate, annul, do away with, negate, quash, repeal, rescind), ακυρώνω (abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, overide, repeal, rescind, scrub, to override, void), ακυρώ (abrogate, invalidate, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate, void), αχρηστεύω (disable, disuse, incapacitate, supersede). (various references)

Hebrew		לבטל (abolish, annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, set aside, suspend, undo). (various references)

Hungarian		megsemmisít (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, cancel, efface, elide, remit, repeal, to annihilate, to annul, to cancel, to destroy, to disfigure, to eliminate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to give sy a trouncing, to nullify, to overwhelm, to put down, to put to rout, to repeal, to reverse, to rout, to set aside, to smite hip and thigh), hatálytalanít (invalidate, quash, renege, repeal, revoke, to abate, to frustrate, to invalidate, to null, to nullify, to quash, to repeal, to rescind, to revoke, to stultify, to supersede), érvénytelenít (abate, abrogate, annul, call off, cancel, disannul, invalidate, quash, rescind, to annul, to frustrate, to infirm, to invalidate, to nullify, to overrule, to rescind, to set aside, to toll, to vitiate, to void, void). (various references)

Indonesian		tidak mengesahkan, meniadakan (abolish, counteract, eliminate, negate), membatalkan (annul, countermand, delay, disqualify, postpone, quash, rescind, revoke). (various references)

Italian		annullare (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, counter, countermand, delete, dissolve, override, overrule, quash, remit, rescind, scrub, set aside, tear up, to abrogate). (various references)

Manx		neunhaghey, cur gys veg (confutation, confute), cur er neunhee (stultify). (various references)

Pig Latin		ullifynay

Portuguese		invalidar (annul, break, disarm, invalidate, irritating, negation, quash, stultify, vitiate, whittle down), cancelar (annul, cancel, countermand, delete, expurgate, recall, remit, rescind, revoke), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, cancel, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disaffirm, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutron, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside, strike out), anulações (abrogations). (various references)

Romanian		anula (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate), abroga (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit, repeal, rescind, revoke). (various references)

Russian		аннулировать (abate, annul, avoided, cancel, canseal, disannul, dissolve, invalidate, invalidates, override, overriden, overrode, quash, render null, rescind, vacate, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ukinuti (abolish, abrogate, call off, cancel, discontinue, quash, rescind, reverse, revoke, set aside, undo), poništiti (abolish, annul, cancel, countermand, defeat, foreclose, invalidate, quash, repeal, unmake, void). (various references)

Spanish		invalidar (annul, clear, delete, devitalize, enfeeble, inhibit, invalidate, negate, override, rebut, spoil, void), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, annulus, avoid, cancel, countermand, defeat, destroy, discontinue, invalidate, negate, negative, override, overrule, overturn, quash, remit, repudiate, rescind, revoke, ring finger, scrub, set aside, to abrogate, to override, undo, void, write off). (various references)

Swedish		annullera (annul, cancel, defeat, revoke, withdraw). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้ไม่มีค่า. (various references)

Turkish		iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), hükümsüz kılmak (cancel, invalidate, override, void), geçersiz kılmak (cancel, debauch, invalidate, overrule, repeal, rescind, vitiate), etkisiz bırakmak. (various references)

Ukranian		скасовувати (abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disestablish, negative, repeal, rescind, withdraw), робити недійсним (invalidate, null, vitiate), відміняти (abate, abolish, abrogate, avoid, bar, defeat, negative, rescind, revoke, vacate), нуліфікувати, зводити до нуля, знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, defeat, disannul, elide, null, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, wash out, withdraw). (various references)

Welsh		dirymu (annul, cancel). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque, nullus. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	nullificare, nullificationem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nullify": nullifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nullify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nulify, nulli, nullilfy, uglify. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nullify" (pronounced nu"lufī')
4	-l u f ī'	amplify, disqualify, exemplify, mollify, oversimplify, qualify, requalify, simplify, vilify.
3	-u f ī'	acidify, beautify, calcify, certify, clarify, classify, codify, crucify, decertify, declassify, deify, demystify, detoxify, dignify, diversify, edify, electrify, falsify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, intensify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, ossify, pacify, personify, petrify, purify, quantify, ramify, ratify, reclassify, rectify, reunify, signify, solidify, specify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-i-l-l-n-u-y"
	-2 letters: filly, fully, unify.
	-3 letters: fill, full, illy, inly, lily, liny, luny, nill, null, yill.
	-4 letters: fil, fin, flu, fly, fun, ill, lin, nil, yin.
	-5 letters: if, in, li, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "f-i-l-l-n-u-y"
	+1 letter: sinfully, sulfinyl.
	+2 letters: gainfully, mindfully, painfully, sulfinyls.
	+3 letters: fancifully, fumblingly, nullifying, unfilially.
	+4 letters: bountifully, feloniously, flauntingly, plentifully, undutifully, unfailingly, unfeelingly, unselfishly.
	+5 letters: disdainfully, fuliginously, functionally, fungicidally, insightfully, meaningfully, unfaithfully, unfamiliarly, unflaggingly, unfruitfully, unmercifully, unofficially, unskillfully.
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