What is another word for nullifies?

Pronunciation: [nˈʌlɪfˌa͡ɪz] (IPA)

Nullify means to make something ineffective or cancel it out. There are many synonyms that can be used instead of nullifies, depending on the context in which it is being used. Some possible synonyms include annuls, invalidates, negates, renders void or useless, neutralizes, and quashes. Each of these terms conveys the idea that something has been made ineffective or undone in some way. Some other possible terms that could be used instead of nullifies include cancels, reverses, voids, obliterates, erases, or wipes out. When choosing a synonym for nullifies, it is important to consider the specific meaning and intended use of the word in context.

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Usage examples for Nullifies

Maximilian's bad faith nullifies our treaty with him.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
It refutes every theodicy; it nullifies every solution of evil.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
But no amount of good or bad moral and religious qualities either constitutes or nullifies ability for mutual visibility and rapport between mediumistic persons.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam

Famous quotes with Nullifies

  • The failure described in Being and Nothingness is definitive, but it is also ambiguous.In the original helplessness from which man surges up, nothing is useful, nothing is useless.It is not in vain that man nullifies being. Thanks to him, being is disclosed and he desires this disclosure. There is an original type of attachment to being which is not the relationship “wanting to be” but rather “wanting to disclose being.” Now, here there is not failure, but rather success.
    Simone de Beauvoir
  • Since it is hardly likely that contemporary critics seriously mean to bar prose narratives that are unrealistic from the domain of literature, one suspects that a special standard is being applied to sexual themes. … There is nothing conclusive in the well-known fact that most men and women fall short of the sexual prowess that people in pornography are represented as enjoying; that the size of organs, number and duration of orgasms, variety and feasibility of sexual powers, and amount of sexual energy all seem grossly exaggerated. Yes, and the spaceships and the teeming planets depicted in science-fiction novels don’t exist either. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography or science-fiction from being literature. … The materials of the pornographic books that count as literature are, precisely, one of the extreme forms of human consciousness. Undoubtedly, many people would agree that the sexually obsessed consciousness can, in principle, enter into literature as an art form. … But then they usually add a rider to the agreement which effectively nullifies it. They require that the author have the proper “distance” from his obsessions for their rendering to count as literature. Such a standard is sheer hypocrisy, revealing one again that the values commonly applied to pornography are, in the end, those belonging to psychiatry and social affairs rather than to art. (Since Christianity upped that ante and concentrated on sexual behavior as the root of virtue, everything pertaining to sex has been a “special case” in our culture, evoking particularly inconsistent attitudes.) Van Gogh’s paintings retain their status as art even if it seems his manner of painting owed less to a conscious choice of representational means than to his being deranged and actually seeing reality the way he painted it. … What makes a work of pornography part of the history of art rather than of trash is not distance, the superimposition of a consciousness more conformable to that of ordinary reality upon the “deranged consciousness” of the erotically obsessed. Rather, it is the originality, thoroughness, authenticity, and power of that deranged consciousness itself, as incarnated in a work.
    Susan Sontag

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