English words for 'an unintentionally invalid argument'
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noun
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
- (uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
- (uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
- (countable, rare) Wisdom and knowledge.
- (countable) An intentional fallacy.
noun
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- uplifting enlightenment
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
- Falsification, contamination.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Complexity.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Enlightenment or education.
noun
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
- (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
- (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
noun
- (logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
- (comedy) A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- (narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that preceded it.
- a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
noun
- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, South Africa) To break down; to become inoperable.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
- fall forward and down
noun
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
verb
noun
- An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
- (art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
- An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
- (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
- Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- a male person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- Synonym of straw buyer.
- (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
verb
noun
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
- (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
verb
adj
verb
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- the speech act of contradicting someone
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
adj
noun
- a point asserted as part of an argument
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
- Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
- (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
verb
- (intransitive) To err.
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
noun
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- cause to become loose
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
noun
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
- An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
- (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
- (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
- The act of correcting.
- A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- treatment of a specific defect
- the act of disciplining
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- something substituted for an error
noun
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
- (uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
- (uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
- (countable, rare) Wisdom and knowledge.
- (countable) An intentional fallacy.
noun
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- uplifting enlightenment
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
- Falsification, contamination.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Complexity.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Enlightenment or education.
noun
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
- (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
- (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
noun
- (logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
- (comedy) A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- (narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that preceded it.
- a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
noun
- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
noun
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
verb
noun
- An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
- (art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
- An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
- (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
- Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
noun
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- a male person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- Synonym of straw buyer.
- (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
verb
noun
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
- (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
verb
noun
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- the speech act of contradicting someone
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
noun
- a point asserted as part of an argument
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
- Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
- (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
noun
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
- An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
- (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
- (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
- The act of correcting.
- A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- treatment of a specific defect
- the act of disciplining
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- something substituted for an error
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, South Africa) To break down; to become inoperable.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
- fall forward and down
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To err.
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
noun
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
adj
verb
noun
adj
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- cause to become loose
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of