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Definition

to contradict, offset, or render meaningless

Her apology is welcome, but does not negate her inexperience.

The contract was negated by bankruptcy.
Developing country growth will negate reduced carbon emissions in the developed world.
The increased government spending was negated by decreased private spending.
It negates the efforts of every scientist, statesman, moralist, reformer, doctor, and philosopher that ever gave his life to humanity's service.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
The shark was utterly frozen in place, perhaps negating the tank's occupants' ability to sense him.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
I want them to absorb their negations.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)

"Where is the original?" asked Madame de Bellegarde, in a voice which was really a consummate negation of impatience.
Henry James -- The American

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Including the words that had negated all the rest.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
It was not a solitude of atrophy, of negation, but of perpetual flowering.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop

The other guys in the band don't feel the same way, but singing for sex negates the art.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
The clear wrap of windows and the glossy acrylic table didn't negate the fact that Simpson was in deep trouble.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
With a feeling of decisive, final negation that was almost like panic within me, I wanted to hear no more about Auschwitz, not another word.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

However, your success does not negate the reality of your disobedience.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
The negation of the Eleatic philosophy was Heracli-tus, who said that everything flows.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

That was encrusted with parental associations... Negation.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man

It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the science of negation, and he's ready.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

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