negate
否定
definition
verb
alcohol negates the effects of the drug
nullify; make ineffective.
What we did there was just negate the A. We wanted to negate the whole sentence.
make (a clause, sentence, or proposition) negative in meaning.
translation of 'negate'
verb
否,
否定
example
Psychiatrists point out that alcohol itself is a depressant and may 'negate' the effects of anti-depressant medication.
This is the shadow side of desire, manifested in the impulse to 'negate' , deny, and reject that which is unpleasant or unwelcome.
I take supplements to try and offset or 'negate' the effects of the ubiquitous poisons in our food and environment.
It is reduced, therefore, to vindicating its national glory by attempting to 'negate' the military and political power of the United States.
In some English dialects, after all, a double negative reinforces a negative, it doesn't 'negate' it.
Moreover, since all human arrangements are vulnerable to changes in circumstances, the possibility that a planned robbery might be cancelled if there are police in the vicinity at the time does not 'negate' the existence of a conspiracy.
In truth, she could not have known she had fallen into this realm as the mere awareness of self and location whether spatial or otherwise would 'negate' the very nature of the state itself.
I'll admit, I think it's often exaggerated greatly for that purpose, but such exaggeration doesn't 'negate' it's existence.
Colonial rule, in denying democracy, seemed to 'negate' any concept of the state's duty to its subjects.
I've suggested that Rice's utterance is unlikely to be function-free, and also that it's unlikely to have been used to question, 'negate' , or contradict.
It doesn't 'negate' an interest in politics, history, ethics or humanity at large, or mean you have no self-respect.
Disaster and evil seem to me no more to negate the existence of God than they 'negate' the existence of love and courage.
Meanwhile, the promotional work to 'negate' the effects of the foot and mouth scare commenced in the middle of the crisis with an advertising campaign in the national press.
What we did there was just negate the A. We wanted to 'negate' the whole sentence.
In itself, the accent on international governing bodies does not 'negate' the political sovereignty of individual nations.
The finance minister and senior cabinet colleagues believe that otherwise crèche fees will increase and 'negate' the effect of more child benefit and tax breaks.
Even though outwardly he denied wanting her, Ethan could no longer 'negate' the need of her presence in his life.
I don't mean to take this into a ‘blame the victim’ argument, but clearly the youth is a product of its environment, and so we can't 'negate' the effect of their upbringing.
The existence of packet loss does not 'negate' the viability for storage traffic over IP.
They have to continue with unpredictable flight times and routes and counter measures in the air to 'negate' the effect of these missiles.
It would culminate in an increase in the rate at which the general level of the price of goods and services in the economy is increased, and 'negate' the positive effect which the latest lowering of oil and petrol prices may have had.
But does that 'negate' the imperial nature of our power?
In the process she has faced round after round of blood transfusions and radical hospital treatment to 'negate' the effects of the illness that is destroying her bone marrow.
The existence of a biological substrate, however, does not 'negate' the importance of the social construction and feminist analysis models of the development and expression of sexuality.
The purpose of this paper has not been to 'negate' or refute the historical memories of the generation that came of age during Japan's dark valley.
Diet was nor restricted in this study, so it's possible the women increased their food intake, thus 'negating' the effects of their exercise regimen.
Using video, we were able to disrupt stable, everyday causalities, and to circumvent the logic that 'negates' the existence of fanciful signs or places of superstition in our environment.
The burden of wading through up to 1000 e-mails on their return frequently had the effect of immediately 'negating' the positive effects of their annual break.
Roth might have benefitted from a little more restraint to keep things more disturbing, yet instead adopts a gung-ho approach that ultimately 'negates' the overall effect.
The massive cloaks of both Virgin and Magi are the most distinctive feature of the relief; by concealing and 'negating' the body beneath they deny the Greek heritage that is so conspicuous a feature of his other work.
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