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cancelling out

cancelling 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 cancelling out

alternative formcanceling out

Questions about cancelling out

What is cancelling out the present participle and gerund of?
Cancelling out is the present participle and gerund of cancel out.

Words near cancelling out in the dictionary

  1. cancellers
  2. cancellest
  3. cancelleth
  4. cancelli
  5. cancelling
  6. cancelling out
  7. cancelling someone's Christmas
  8. cancellous
  9. cancells
  10. cancellus
  11. cancelment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancelling 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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