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
That’s one fewer than the number of touchdowns the Chargers had nullified by penalties Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2021
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
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
My own juju, I said, had nullified his by pronouncing the accused innocent, and I was exceedingly anxious to test the relative truth of our soothsayers.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
