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nihilate

nihilate verb: to annul.

Verb

nihilate (third-person singular simple present nihilates, present participle nihilating, simple past and past participle nihilated)

  1. (obsolete) To annul.
  2. The action of consciousness, which is the origin of negation in facticity.

Forms of nihilate

third-person singular presentnihilates
present participlenihilating
past participlenihilated
pastnihilated

Origin of nihilate

From Latin nihilō (“to reduce to nothing”).

Words formed from nihilate

Questions about nihilate

What does nihilate mean?
Nihilate means to annul.
What part of speech is nihilate?
Nihilate is a verb.
What is the past tense of nihilate?
The past tense of nihilate is nihilated.

Words near nihilate in the dictionary

  1. nihil dicits
  2. nihil obstat
  3. nihil obstats
  4. nihilartikel
  5. nihilartikels
  6. nihilate
  7. nihilated
  8. nihilates
  9. nihilating
  10. nihilation
  11. nihilations

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