invalidate

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin valere (“to be strong”); literally, “to make not strong”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/

Verb

invalidate (third-person singular simple present invalidat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle invalidated)

1. To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.

   The circuit court judge's ruling was invalidated by a superior judge.

Synonyms

• vitiate

Antonyms

• validate

Translations

to make invalid

• Bulgarian: обезсилвам (bg) (obezsilvam), анулирам (bg) (anuliram)
• Catalan: invalidar (ca)
• Dutch: ontkrachten (nl)
• Finnish: mitätöidä (fi)
• French: invalider (fr)
• German: entkräften (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀθετέω (athetéō)

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• Hungarian: érvénytelenít (hu), hatálytalanít (hu)
• Ido: desvalidigar (io)
• Latin: invalidō
• Maori: whakanoa, whakamanakore
• Spanish: invalidar (es)
• Swedish: ogiltigförklara (sv)
• Turkish: geçersizleştirmek (tr), hükümsüz kılmak (tr)

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Italian

Verb

invalidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of invalidare
2. second-person plural imperative of invalidare
3. feminine plural of invalidato