cancel out
phrasal verbcancel out | cancel something out
- if two or more things cancel out or one cancels out the other, they are equally important but have an opposite effect on a situation so that the situation does not change
抵消；对消 - Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.
最近的亏损抵消了年初的盈利。 - The advantages and disadvantages would appear to cancel each other out.
看来是利弊参半。
Collocations DictionaryCancel out is used with these nouns as the object:- effect
- Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.