单词	negate
释义	negatene‧gate /nɪˈɡeɪt/ AWL verb [transitive] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINnegate Origin: 1600-1700 Latin past participle of negare ‘to say no’, from neg- ‘no, not’ Verb Table VERB TABLE negate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they negate he, she, it negates Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they negated Present perfect I, you, we, they have negated he, she, it has negated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had negated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will negate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have negated Continuous Form Present I am negating he, she, it is negating you, we, they are negating Past I, he, she, it was negating you, we, they were negating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been negating he, she, it has been negating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been negating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be negating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been negating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The decision would negate last year's Supreme Court ruling. The witness's testimony negated what the defendant had claimed. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Any tinkering by users would negate the principle of a worldwide standard. Crimes of violence do not negate law, they merely require its better enforcement. Each wave brought more floodwater through those broken windows, negating the work of sump-pumps. Given this view, most of the proposals introduced by the Reagan administration were designed to negate federal policy interventions. Many of these emotions energize greater effort but others negate effort and lead to dissatisfaction, stress and withdrawal. The veto must be authorized by statute and may only negate what an Executive department or independent agency has proposed. The word riot, she went on to say, negated the fact that organized resistance had taken place. Within a few weeks, they accrue a debt that negates the salary their recruiter had promised them. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto prevent something from being effective► neutralize also neutralise British to prevent something from being effective or stop the effect that it was having: · Congress can try to neutralize new legislation by modifying it or delaying it.· Recent events have done much to neutralize the influence of the right-wing. ► cancel out/negate to prevent something from being effective by having an equal but opposite effect: · Increases in rent cancel out any rise in wages.· He treated me so badly at the end, it cancelled out the good times we'd had.· The side effects of the drug negate any possible benefit.cancel each other out: · The two arguments simply cancel each other out. Word family WORD FAMILYnounnegationverbnegate 1to prevent something from having any effect:  Efforts to expand the tourist industry could be negated by reports that the sea is highly polluted.2to state that something does not exist or is untrue SYN  deny
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