nixverb [ T ]
uk/nɪks/us/nɪks/US informalto stop, prevent, or refuse to accept something:
The film studio nixed her plans to make a sequel.
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Preventing and impeding
- avert
- avoid
- avoidable
- bar
- be a drag on sb/sth idiom
- block sth out
- bottleneck
- derail
- fireproof
- hold out on sb
- hold sb/sth back
- hold/keep sb/sth at bay idiom
- holding pattern
- impede
- prevention
- prevention is better than cure idiom
- preventive
- prohibit
- pull
- scuttle
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Forbidding and banning things
Refusing & rejecting
nixnoun [ U ], adverb
uk/nɪks/us/nɪks/US informalnothing or no:
All that effort for nix.
I suppose mom will say nix to us going to the movies.
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Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- anything
- aught
- bazillion
- bugger
- fresh
- nil
- none
- not a dicky bird idiom
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing
- nowt
- sweet
- sweet fanny adams idiom
- the whole bit idiom
- the whole lot idiom
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit
- zero
- zip
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