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cancels out

cancels out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about cancels out

What is cancels out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cancels out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cancel out.

Words near cancels out in the dictionary

  1. cancellus
  2. cancelment
  3. cancelments
  4. cancelous
  5. cancels
  6. cancels out
  7. cancels someone's Christmas
  8. Cancemini
  9. Canceo
  10. cancer
  11. cancer bush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancels 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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