negatived

past tense of negative
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as in dismissed
to reject by or as if by a vote although the rebuttal was very eloquent, the jury negatived it in favor of the prosecution's argument we promptly negatived the idea of having pizza again for dinner, noting that we had already had it for three nights that week

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for negatived
Verb
  • The Chiefs are back, just as quickly as they were dismissed, and that’s in more than ways than post-game one-liners exuding some confidence after a convincing 30-17 win against the red-hot Lions.
    Sam McDowell October 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And these cases may very well be dismissed on that basis.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Through a lawyer, Minaj denied the claims.
    Andrew Flanagan, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Wendi and her father Harvey have not been charged with any crime and have denied involvement in the plot.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Ares was in development for a decade, but former Disney exec Sean Bailey refused to give up and shepherded the project when serving as head of Disney’s live-action studio.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In southern Gaza, a group opposed to Hamas known as the Popular Forces has refused to lay down its arms.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In addition, for some workers the deduction may not be enough to offset the negative effects of other aspects of the Republicans’ spending bill.
    Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • While beneficiaries are getting more in their checks, that extra amount is meant to offset the increase in prices across the board.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Comey received a slight boost in his case to plead his innocence earlier this week when a judge rejected federal prosecutors’ effort to impose broad restrictions on the evidence Comey can access ahead of trial.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The news caused Salesforce shares to surge as management rejected Wall Street’s narrative of sluggish revenue growth that’s been weighing on investor sentiment in 2025.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Trump invited, and Erdogan vetoed.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Newsom vetoed another measure, Senate Bill 24, which also followed The Bee’s reporting on SoCalGas spending.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The couple has publicly refuted those claims, affirming the authenticity of their partnership.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When rumors flew in the colonies that Franklin had personally designed the Stamp Act, William refuted the charges.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski previously declined to comment on whether King is linked to the alleged harassing phone calls.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Negatived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negatived. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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