| 单词 | nullify |
| 释义 | nul·li·fy 1. < we are asked to nullify legislation as an undue encroachment upon the sphere of individual liberty — B.N.Cardozo > 2. < the lightning nullified the meager table lamp — R.A.W.Hughes > < the small gains made in the Colony were nullified by the Revolution — American Guide Series: North Carolina > Synonyms: < the earlier devices for nullifying the effects of the Fifteenth Amendment were becoming outworn — Helen Sullivan > < at least 19 international cartels which threaten to nullify efforts to reduce trade barriers — Current Biography > < a lack of … confidence tends to nullify and destroy the results of enormous effort in technical and interpretative development — A.E.Wier > invalidate carries this general sense but adds the idea of rendering unacceptable by reason of legal or official requirements or condition not adequately met < a priest of wisdom with a flaw in his ordination and an invalidating clause in his commission — W.L.Sullivan > < so many reservations, explicit and implicit, as to invalidate that pact from the outset — Vera M. Dean > < we do not say that we have met with an instance which invalidates the mathematical proposition that the sum of the three angles of a Euclidean triangle is 180 degrees — A.J.Ayer > negate suggests a canceling out or a nullification of one thing by another of two mutually exclusive things < excellent clauses regarding the employment of children, they are negated not only by the negligence and venality of some local officials but also by the sheer facts of existence among the poor — George Woodcock > < he discovers he has appended his signature to contracts which negate each other — Richard Maney > < shock may temporarily negate the effects of drinking — Theodore Loveless > annul suggests a rendering ineffective by depriving of the power to function or rendering nonexistent, often officially or legally < the two opposing electricities, so proportioned and so disposed that each of them annuls the actions which the other would produce outside the block if it were by itself — K.K.Darrow > < mystery does not annul meaning but enriches it — Reinhold Niebuhr > < war, as it becomes more and more total, practically annuls the difference as to injury and exposure to danger which formerly existed between armed forces and noncombatants — H.M.Huber > < the Emancipation Proclamation annulled all prior laws regarding slaves > abrogate is much like annul but has a stronger association with a legal or official purposeful act < the military clique abrogated the existing constitution — Americana Annual > < the Council of Ministers … has the power to abrogate actions of the constituent republics which contravene laws or decrees of the central government — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > < his audience had reached the point where it had abrogated all desire to think about anything — Nigel Dennis > |
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