Noise-cancel

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 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."

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"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."

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