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noise-cancelled

noise-cancelled is the simple past and past participle of noise-cancel.

Meaning of noise-cancel

Verb

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

  1. To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
    • My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic

Questions about noise-cancelled

What is noise-cancelled the simple past and past participle of?
Noise-cancelled is the simple past and past participle of noise-cancel.

Words near noise-cancelled in the dictionary

  1. noise word
  2. noise words
  3. noise-cancel
  4. noise-canceled
  5. noise-canceling
  6. noise-cancelled
  7. noise-cancelling
  8. noise-cancels
  9. noise-free
  10. noise-shy
  11. noiseband

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