nullify
verb (used with object)
to render or declare legally void or inoperative.
had nullified
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past perfectof nullify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He was leafing through a proof of the M.E.P.’s catalog, and asking himself if the invasion had nullified this summation of his life’s work.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Monday’s ruling was just the second time in Africa that a court had nullified a presidential election, after Kenya in 2017.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
She said the majority had nullified a “plain-vanilla rule of contract interpretation” that in California and other states requires an ambiguous agreement be read to favor the side that didn’t write it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
Union lead negotiator John Holland insisted the board had nullified that calculation by announcing a change in the last day of school, so the strike continued.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
Foreseeing the result of his opponent's strategy, he had nullified it by seeking the position into which he would finally have been forced.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
