Definition of "negates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of negate. (verb)

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• "Though the call negates it, it doesn't make it a either/or action."
• "It's not just about the fact that if we clearly cannot agree on what feminism is, how can we even go about agreeing on what post-feminism is, but that the very term negates both the activism and identity of those who regard feminism as a work in progress, not just something to be studied in the history books with the requisite buzzphrase "bra burning," sans explanation about its origins in a single protest at the 1968 Miss America Pageant Freedom Trash Can bonfire."
• "Here is a game … Which word negates the whole thing?"