Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cancel_out
1 sense of cancel out
Sense 1
cancel out, wipe out -- (wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record")
=> extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")