nixed

[ nikst ]
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adjectiveInformal.
  1. vetoed, scrapped, denied, or discontinued; prevented from proceeding: The nixed trade deal means a less competitive environment in the construction sector.One of the nixed Facebook pages had more than one million followers.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of nix1.

Origin of nixed

1
First recorded in 1920–25, for an earlier sense; nix1 + -ed2 for the adjective; nix1 + -ed1 for the verb

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