nix
verb /nɪks/
/nɪks/
(North American English, informal)动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they nix | /nɪks/ /nɪks/ |
| he / she / it nixes | /ˈnɪksɪz/ /ˈnɪksɪz/ |
| past simple nixed | /nɪkst/ /nɪkst/ |
| past participle nixed | /nɪkst/ /nɪkst/ |
| -ing form nixing | /ˈnɪksɪŋ/ /ˈnɪksɪŋ/ |
- nix something to prevent something from happening by saying ‘no’ to it
阻止；拒绝 - We quickly nixed the idea of going to the museum.
我们很快打消了去博物馆的念头。
Collocations DictionaryNix is used with these nouns as the object:- deal
词源late 18th cent. (as a noun): from German, colloquial variant of nichts ‘nothing’. - We quickly nixed the idea of going to the museum.