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canceling out

canceling out is the present participle and gerund of cancel out.

Meaning of cancel out

Verb

cancel out (third-person singular simple present cancels out, present participle (US) canceling out or (UK) cancelling out, simple past and past participle (US) canceled out or (UK) cancelled out)

  1. (transitive) To neutralize the effect of.
    • We can cancel the aberration out by adding another filter.
  2. (intransitive) Of two or more things: to neutralize each other's effect.
    • Love and hate cancel out.

Forms of canceling out

alternative formcancelling out

Questions about canceling out

What is canceling out the present participle and gerund of?
Canceling out is the present participle and gerund of cancel out.

Words near canceling out in the dictionary

  1. cancelier
  2. canceliered
  3. canceliering
  4. canceliers
  5. canceling
  6. canceling out
  7. canceling someone's Christmas
  8. cancell
  9. cancell'd
  10. cancellability
  11. cancellable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canceling out (page history and authors); cancel out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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