noise-cancel

English

Verb

noise-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)

  1. To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
    • 2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      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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