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cancel out

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cancel something out
to balance the effects of something. Sending flowers might cancel the bad feelings out. The last payment canceled out the debt.
See also: cancel, out

cancel out (of something)

to withdraw from something. I hate to cancel out of the event at the last minute, but this is an emergency. It's too late to cancel out.
See also: cancel, out
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Jay O'Shea and Jake Jervis netted to cancel out Fabio Borini's 16th-minute goal.
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But on Saturday he stepped up after being downed by David Craig and crashed home the spot-kick to cancel out Craig Frizzell's header.
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A Slight Modification to Minimize Effort In order to make it easier for divers to move underwater, the original design of scuba fins have been modified to cancel out the sources of this drag.
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