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Definition

to declare or show something to be invalid

or:

to make something ineffective by counterbalancing its effect

The higher court nullified the ruling.

nullified = invalidated

... but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.
Eliot, George -- Adam Bede
one of the statements appeared in a somewhat different context, thereby nullifying the contradiction.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen

nullifying = showing it to be invalid

said Lady Chettam, a charming woman, not so quick as to nullify the pleasure of explanation.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
An irrational hope that if I don't find the day then the day won't find me, that the things in the night will be nullified.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
And if that's not bizarre enough, every record that they set with Antoine on the team has been nullified, too.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
This is a great human law which cannot be permanently nullified.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Krupkin's strategy for a KGB assault team in civilian clothes had been nullified by the first burst from the Jackal's weapon.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Racists showed high ingenuity in developing schemes to destroy a man's reputation as a means of nullifying his work.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
This time the wish was not nullified by his spitting after them.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In a few seconds, Woolf and Seabiscuit had stolen the track from him, nullifying his post-position edge and his legendary early speed.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
Their eight years of friendship and love, THE eight years of his life, were nullified.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
That will nullify the entire thing.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
But Bertha nullified this to a degree, by coming to Delia's house to call Sykes out to her at the gate.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat
Arthur had felt a twinge of conscience during Mr. Poyser's speech, but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
And even if I could, how would I nullify an enemy's magic?
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
One of the surprising side effects of the artificial metal, Flamel said, is its ability to nullify even the most powerful magics.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
She was thinking that this would certainly demonstrate her control over him to all those others, seeing that it nullified Miss Phant's invitation.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
In the featureless electric faces of bulbs hung on the dredges, cranes, cables, the rain looked like nothing either and was nullified.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Could the Fremen have a way of nullifying shields?
Frank Herbert -- Dune

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