All nix synonyms

verb nix

• cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
• abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
• counterorder — An order (command) made in opposition to a previous one.
• blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
• disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• rub off — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• let out — (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
• take exception to — object to sth
• disentitle — to deprive of title or right.
• pull the plug — If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• unfitting — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
• repulse — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
• washed out — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable: a wash dress.
• forfend — to defend, secure, or protect.
• disenable — to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
• put the kibosh on — nonsense.
• x out — to cross out or mark with or as if with an x (often followed by out): to x out an error.
• backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
• wash one's hands of — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
• dispraise — to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
• disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
• boot out — If someone boots you out of a job, organization, or place, you are forced to leave it.
• send off — a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• circumduct — (obsolete) To lead about or astray.
• offing — the state or fact of being off.
• unfitted — made so as to follow closely the contours of a form or shape: fitted clothes; fitted sheets.
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
• keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• discommend — to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
• put an end to — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
• rescind — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
• lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• beg off — to ask to be released from an engagement, obligation, etc
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
• wash out — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
• ko — a knockout in boxing.
• invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
• disqualify — to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
• trashed — intoxicated; drunk.
• spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
• freeze out — the act of freezing; state of being frozen.
• throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.