Timeline for Looking for a verb meaning "make something unnecessary"
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| Feb 12, 2017 at 18:51 | comment | added | Gustavson | @Rose When "make" is used in that pattern (please see this other thread I took part in recently: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/102932/make-it-clear-what/…), "render" seems to me to be a better word. | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 11:40 | comment | added | TimR | books.google.com/… | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 11:32 | comment | added | TimR | Such a verb would be obviate (one of whose meanings is 'to render unnecessary') but it is not a better choice, in your examples, for "make...unnecessary". | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 11:31 | answer | added | Rich | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 11:17 | history | edited | Rose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2017 at 11:12 | history | asked | Rose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |