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noise-cancels

noise-cancels is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-cancels

What is noise-cancels the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Noise-cancels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of noise-cancel.

Words near noise-cancels in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noise-cancels (page history and authors); noise-cancel (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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