noise-cancel

verb

To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.

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Meanings

verbnoise-cancel (third-person singular simple present noise-cancels, present participle (US) noise-canceling or (UK) noise-cancelling, simple past and past participle (US) noise-canceled or (UK) noise-cancelled)

present singular third person noise-cancels · US participle present noise-canceling · UK participle present noise-cancelling · US participle past noise-canceled · US past noise-canceled · UK participle past noise-cancelled · UK past noise-cancelled

  1. To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.

    My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.

    2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic
Cite this entry
APA

noise-cancel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noise-cancel

MLA

“noise-cancel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noise-cancel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noise-cancel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noise-cancel.

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