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Definition
to declare or show something to be invalidor:
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
- 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
nullifying = showing it to be invalid