أَحْبَطَ

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أَحْبَطَIV [احبطهُ seems to signify, in its primary acceptation, He made him, or it, to be in the state termed حَبَطٌ, which see below.
2 And hence,] احبط عَمَلَهُ He made his work, or deed, to become null, or void, or of no account; to go for nothing; to perish; to be ineffective of reward; or he annulled its reward. So it signifies in the Kur [xxxiii. 19, &c.]: and you say, إِنْ عَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا أَتْبَعَهُ مَا يُحْبِطُهُ وَ إِنْ أَرْسَلَ كَلِمًا طَيِّبًا أَرْسَلَ خَلْفَهُ مَا يُحْبِطُهُ [If he do a good deed, he makes to follow it that which annuls it; and if he send forth good words, he sends forth after them that which annuls them]. And hence also, احبط الدَّمَ He made the blood to go for nothing; unretaliated, and uncompensated by a mulct.
3 احبطهُ الضَّرْبُ The beating made a mark or scar, or marks or scars, upon him.

def.2 احبط مَآءُ الرَّكِيَّةِ, Verbal.Noun إِحْبَاطٌ, The water of the well went away, and did not return as it was; as also حَبِطَ , Present.T ـَ.
2 احبط عَنْ فُلَانٍ He turned away from, avoided, shunned, and left, such a one.

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