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# negate

«negate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to cancel it out or make it have no effect** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (negate, negates, negated, negating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To negate something is to cancel it out or make it have no effect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#m1)

2) (formal) To negate a statement is to deny it or say it is not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#m2)

3) (grammar) To negate a sentence is to make it negative, for example by adding «not». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In formal and exam writing: «eating a cake negates the effect of the run». In grammar: «I like peas» negated is «I don't like peas». In maths and logic: negating a number gives its opposite (5 → -5).

### examples

- Eating junk food can negate the good of exercising. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#x1)
- One rude word can negate a hundred kind ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#x2)
- Negate the sentence by adding «not». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#x3)
- The new evidence negated his story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#x4)
- In maths, negating 7 gives -7. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#x5)
- The rain negated all our watering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/#x6)

### note

Formal word; everyday: cancel out, undo. Noun: negation; adjective: negative. Maths: the negation of a number has the same size but the opposite sign.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «negate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/negate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.