cancel out

As dust and grit builds up and become lodged between the two insulating shells, this cancels out the insulating properties.

I tell you frankly that we are absolutely opposed to friction between the anti-Japanese parties, which cancels out their strength.

In terms of global average temperature, this winter's arctic oscillation "probably roughly cancels out, " Dr. Meier said.

Finally, even if it cancels out the surprise, openly asking someone what they want isn't forbidden.

An invention which cancels out the noise of a dentist's drill could help people overcome their fear of a check-up, researchers say.

And thus it cancels out the interference to what has been done. it does not add, but merely takes away.

But diesel engines also produce relatively heavy emissions of black carbon, Dr. Jacobson said, which partly cancels out the benefit.

So obesity, the researchers suggest, cancels out the extra protection afforded by extra estrogen production by fat cells.

Tamoxifen, which cancels out the sex hormone oestrogen, was first used to fight breast cancer more than 40 years ago.

Instead she cancels out of the wizard.

Unfortunately, the oil price surge more than cancels out that upgrade.

That's part of the deal. He cancels out what they did to Father.

Body roll also cancels out lateral movements that occur relative to the shoulder joint (Sanders, 1997a, 1997b).

The new tax effectively cancels out my raise.

Thirty minutes on the elliptical, for example, cancels out only about half a blueberry muffin.