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4 أَحْبَطَ [احبطهُ seems to signify, in its primary acceptation, He made him, (namely a beast,) or it, (the belly,) to be in the state termed حَبَطٌ, which see below. ― -b2- And hence,] احبط عَمَلَهُ (tropical:) He (God, S, K, or a man, Msb) made his work, or deed, to become null, or void, or of no account; to go for nothing; to perish; (Msb, K, * TA;) to be ineffective of reward; or he annulled its reward. (S.) So it signifies in the Kur [xxxiii. 19, &c.]: and you say, إِِنْ عَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا أَتْبَعَهُ مَا يُحْبِطُهُ وَ إِِنْ أَرْسَلَ كَلِمًا طَيِّبًا أَرْسَلَ خَلْفَهُ مَا يُحْبِطُهُ (tropical:) [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]. (TA.) And hence also, (Z, TA,) احبط الدَّمَ (tropical:) He made the blood to go for nothing; unretaliated, and uncompensated by a mulct. (Msb, K, * TA. *) ― -b3- احبطهُ الضَّرْبُ The beating made a mark or scar, or marks or scars, upon him. (TA.) -A2- احبط مَآءُ الرَّكِيَّةِ, (K,) inf. n. إِِحْبَاطٌ, (AA, S,) The water of the well went away, and did not return (AA, S, K) as it was; (AA, S;) as also ↓ حَبِطَ , aor. حَبَطَ . (TA.) ― -b2- احبط عَنْ فُلَانٍ He turned away from, avoided, shunned, and left, such a one. (IDrd, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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