What does invalidate mean?
Definitions for invalidate
ɪnˈvæl ɪˌdeɪtin·val·i·date
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Princeton's WordNet
invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullifyverb
declare invalid
"The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
cancel, invalidateverb
make invalid for use
"cancel cheques or tickets"
invalidate, nullifyverb
show to be invalid
invalidate, void, vitiateverb
take away the legal force of or render ineffective
"invalidate a contract"
Wiktionary
invalidateverb
To make invalid. Esp. applied to contract law.
The circuit court judge's ruling was invalidated by a superior judge.
Etymology: From valere; literally, “to make not strong”.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Invalidateverb
To weaken; to deprive of force or efficacy.
Etymology: from invalid.
To invalidate such a consequence, some things might be speciously enough alledged. Boyle.
Tell a man, passionately in love, that he is jilted, bring a score of witnesses of the falshood of his mistress, and it is ten to one but three kind words of her's shall invalidate all their testimonies. John Locke.
ChatGPT
invalidate
To invalidate means to negate, cancel, dismiss, or make something null and void, often in relation to ideas, claims, arguments, results, or legal agreements. It generally implies that the thing being invalidated is proven to be false, incorrect, ineffective, or flawed in some way.
Webster Dictionary
Invalidateverb
to render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument
Etymology: [From Invalid null.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of invalidate in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of invalidate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of invalidate in a Sentence
At this juncture, the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections has no legal authority under state law to invalidate presidential election results certified in December of 2020 by the Georgia Secretary of State, election contests for the 2020 presidential election had to be filed in court within five days of the certification by the Secretary of State.
Rental agreements often have clauses that allow landlords to invalidate a lease if it’s discovered that the tenant lied on an application, so I assume if the tenant has a pig roast, they could accuse the tenant of fraud on the rental application.
That system has been excruciatingly tested, successfully, at White Sands, against simulated targets, real targets, and it does the job it was designed to do, they'll fix it whatever it is. And the fact that you have a test aircraft crash, or an aerostat break loose, doesn't invalidate the system.
District Attorney John Chisholm:
Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody ? you bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.
We are going to challenge and invalidate patents through the IPR process ... (and) we are not going to settle, the companies that are expanding patents by simply changing the dosage or the way they are packaging something are going to get knee capped.
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