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The invalid's eye remained fixed, by which expression he intended to intimate that his resolution was unalterable.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVALIDATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invalidate
 v.  make invalid; nullify; destroy
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Yes, but the absence of others will not altogether invalidate the transaction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
2  Nor will it invalidate his right, to say every body else has an equal title to it; and therefore he cannot appropriate, he cannot inclose, without the consent of all his fellow-commoners, all mankind.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  She found out that because he had been an invalid he had not learned things as other children had.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  When he was amused and interested she thought he scarcely looked like an invalid at all, except that his face was so colorless and he was always on the sofa.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  In spite of his invalid back Colin sat up in bed in quite a healthy rage.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  She found the servants' hall a more amusing place than the invalid's chamber and just now everybody wanted to hear the news from upstairs.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Mester Colin says if he keeps sendin for more food they won't believe he's an invalid at all.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  In fact as an imitation of a boy who was a confirmed invalid he was a disgraceful sight.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  She laughed as if she could not help it when they told her of the increasing difficulty there was in pretending that Colin was still a fretful invalid.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  After that he scarcely ever saw him except when he was asleep, and all he knew of him was that he was a confirmed invalid, with a vicious, hysterical, half-insane temper.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  "Thanks," murmured the invalid, extending one hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
12  The eye of the invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind; he listened, nothing more.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
13  The invalid's eye remained fixed, by which expression he intended to intimate that his resolution was unalterable.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
14  "Yes, yes, yes," motioned the invalid.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
15  "Yes," looked the invalid, his eye beaming with delight at the ready interpretation of his meaning.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
Example Sentence:
1  Any form of physical activity will invalidate the results.
2  Such exceptions do not invalidate the rule.
3  The relatives who received little or nothing sought to invalidate the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he had signed the document.
4  Your action has rendered our contract invalid.
5  This action would render the agreement invalid.
6  Unless a check is signed, it is invalid.
7  People with invalid papers are deported to another country.
8  A passport that is out of date is invalid.
9  Margaret resides with her invalid mother in a London suburb.
10  Yesterday is an invalid cheque.
11  This filter is able to detect invalid clicks in real-time, with the goal of removing them before they ever show up in the AdWords console.
12  This ticket has passed its expiration date, and so it is now invalid.
13  Many seats were declared invalid because of violence, intimidation and electoral fraud.
14  The U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated most provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law, in a move that promises to stoke the volatile political debate over how to deal with the more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
15  An official decree invalidated the vote in the capital.