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cancelled out

cancelled out is the simple past and past participle 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 cancelled out

alternative formcanceled out

Questions about cancelled out

What is cancelled out the simple past and past participle of?
Cancelled out is the simple past and past participle of cancel out.

Words near cancelled out in the dictionary

  1. cancellated
  2. cancellation
  3. cancellations
  4. cancellative
  5. cancelled
  6. cancelled out
  7. cancelled someone's Christmas
  8. cancelled to order
  9. cancelled-to-order
  10. canceller
  11. cancellers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancelled 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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