nullify
verb (used with object)
to render or declare legally void or inoperative.
were nullifying
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past progressiveof nullify.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They were nullifying Liverpool as well as finding ways to hurt them.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
They denounced their colleagues who were nullifying Governor Murray's efforts at price-upping by offerering oil to Oklahoma refiners.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, filter pitches were losing their appeal because conflicting claims were nullifying one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
We turn from this controversy to follow the decisions of those eminent judges who were nullifying the statute against witches.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
