Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to nix
Participle: nixed
Gerund: nixing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | nix |
| you | nix |
| he;she;it | nixes |
| we | nix |
| you | nix |
| they | nix |
Perfect
| I | have nixed |
| you | have nixed |
| he;she;it | has nixed |
| we | have nixed |
| you | have nixed |
| they | have nixed |
Past
| I | nixed |
| you | nixed |
| he;she;it | nixed |
| we | nixed |
| you | nixed |
| they | nixed |
Pluperfect
| I | had nixed |
| you | had nixed |
| he;she;it | had nixed |
| we | had nixed |
| you | had nixed |
| they | had nixed |
Future
| I | will nix |
| you | will nix |
| he;she;it | will nix |
| we | will nix |
| you | will nix |
| they | will nix |
Future Perfect
| I | will have nixed |
| you | will have nixed |
| he;she;it | will have nixed |
| we | will have nixed |
| you | will have nixed |
| they | will have nixed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | nix |
| you | nix |
| he;she;it | nix |
| we | nix |
| you | nix |
| they | nix |
Perfect
| I | have nixed |
| you | have nixed |
| he;she;it | have nixed |
| we | have nixed |
| you | have nixed |
| they | have nixed |
Imperfect
| I | nixed |
| you | nixed |
| he;she;it | nixed |
| we | nixed |
| you | nixed |
| they | nixed |
Pluperfect
| I | had nixed |
| you | had nixed |
| he;she;it | had nixed |
| we | had nixed |
| you | had nixed |
| they | had nixed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would nix |
| you | would nix |
| he;she;it | would nix |
| we | would nix |
| you | would nix |
| they | would nix |
Perfect
| I | would have nixed |
| you | would have nixed |
| he;she;it | would have nixed |
| we | would have nixed |
| you | would have nixed |
| they | would have nixed |
Imperative
| you | nix |
| we | Let's nix |
| you | nix |
Verbs conjugated like 'nix'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'nix'
fix,
mix,
nib,
nig,
nil,
nim,
nip,
nit,
rix,
aid,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
Sample Sentences
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Nix the last order – the customer walked out.
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Sticks Nix Hick Pix [headline] [1935 July 17, “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”, in Variety, volume 119, number 5, page 1:]
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1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
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He said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he "wanted to share the bed" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now.
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The move came less than six months after Jobs had nixed the spin-off of Newton Inc. as an independent company and brought it back inside Apple (see “The Fallen Apple,” page 143). [1999, Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 242:]
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At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.” [2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2012:]