cancel out
phrasal verbcancel out | cancel something out
if two or more things cancel out or one cancels out the other, they are equally important but have an opposite effect on a situation so that the situation does not change 抵消；对消 Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year. 最近的亏损抵消了年初的盈利。 The advantages and disadvantages would appear to cancel each other out. 看来是利弊参半。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCancel out is used with these nouns as the object:- effect