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单词 invalidate
释义

invalidate

/ɪnˈvalɪdeɪt /
verb [with object]
1Make or prove (an argument, statement, or theory) unsound or erroneous.His second is that finding unpleasant - even horrible - application of a scientific theory or philosophical argument invalidates the theory....
  • The reporter did ask, ‘Well, doesn't that invalidate just war theory as a whole?’
  • However, none of this invalidates the general theory that stock aligns CEO incentives with those of the shareholders better than does cash salary; it does.

Synonyms

disprove, show/prove to be false, refute, explode, contradict, rebut, negate, gainsay, belie, give the lie to, discredit, expose, debunk, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through;
weaken, undermine, compromise
informal shoot full of holes, shoot down (in flames)
formal confute, negative
2Deprive (an official document or procedure) of legal validity because it contravenes a regulation or law: a technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination...
  • In a four-hour opening address to a packed courtroom, the barrister went on to argue that invalidating the search warrants would set a precedent that would dangerously restrict their future operations.
  • These cases stress that errors, even fraudulent errors, do not automatically invalidate the warrant.
  • Finding such so-called prior art is the only way to invalidate a patent.

Synonyms

render invalid, void, nullify, annul, negate, cancel, quash, veto, overturn, overrule, override, undo, reverse;
revoke, rescind, abolish, repeal, repudiate, terminate

Derivatives

invalidation

/ɪnvalɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...
  • I asked members of the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School to estimate the number of Supreme Court invalidations of state and federal law.
  • The newspaper has written to the Independent Committee Against Corruption asking for the immediate return of seized material and the invalidation of warrants used against it.
  • Under one of the bills, the Post-Privatisation Control Agency should be allowed to take action towards invalidation of privatisation contracts in circumstances, which would justify such action.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin invalidat- 'annulled', from the verb invalidare (based on Latin validus 'strong').

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