| NOUN | cognition | nullification | the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress |
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| act | nullification, override | the act of nullifying |
| Sounds | nah.lahfahkey'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | The states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress. | |
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| Broader | states' rights | A doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states |
| Verbs | nullify | declare invalid / invalid |
| Meaning | The act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something. | |
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| Synonym | override | |
| Narrower | cancellation | The act of cancelling |
| neutralization, neutralisation, counteraction | action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | |
| neutralization, neutralisation | action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war | |
| vitiation | nullification by the destruction of the legal force | |
| Broader | change of state | The act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics / characteristics |
| Spanish | anulación | |
| Catalan | anul·lació, invalidació | |
| Verbs | nullify | make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of |
| nullify | declare invalid / invalid | |
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