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cancel out

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Verb1.cancel out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
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? cancel out
vt sep (Math) → aufheben; (fig)zunichtemachen; to cancel each other out (Math) → sich aufheben, sich kürzen lassen; (fig)einander aufheben, sich gegenseitig aufheben
vi (Math) → sich aufheben, sich wegkürzen lassen (inf)


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