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Neutralize   /nˈutrəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Neutralize

verb
(past & past part. neutralized; pres. part. neutralizing)
1.
Make politically neutral and thus inoffensive.
2.
Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.  Synonyms: negate, neutralise, nullify.  "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
3.
Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions.  Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, countervail.
4.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.  Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, waste.  "The double agent was neutralized"
5.
Make incapable of military action.  Synonym: neutralise.
6.
Make chemically neutral.  Synonym: neutralise.






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"Neutralize" Quotes from Famous Books



... dares not, or may choose not, to do openly. We are not without fear, from our knowledge of the Chinese character, and of their long-established mode of procedure, that every chicane and evasion will be resorted to, in order to neutralize and nullify, as far as possible, the commercial advantages which we have, at the cannon's mouth, extorted from them. A great deal, at all events, will depend on the skill, firmness, and vigilance, of the consuls to be appointed at the five opened ports of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

... have swallowed so many that they will neutralize one another and act as an antidote. Calm yourself and you will ...
— Confessions of a Neurasthenic • William Taylor Marrs

... fire!" and they threatened, after the same fashion, the female attendants who were with her. At the same time that she protested her own innocence, she did not fail to challenge Anne's sense of justice, with a view to neutralize the enmity of Mazarin. But the physician whom he had had arrested, on being flung into the Bastile, made avowals which opened up traces of very grave matters; and an exempt of the King's guards was despatched to Madame ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... across and slightly upstream. He had often noticed how the pilot of a ferryboat directs his craft above or below the point of landing to counteract the rising or ebbing tide, and this was his intention now; but to neutralize the force of the water with another force not subject to direction or adjustment ...
— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... vice of intemperance, woman, though comparatively innocent, is by far the greatest sufferer. With what a melancholy prospect does a young lady marry a man who uses the filthy plant in any form. He may at first do it in a neat, or even a genteel manner, and neutralize the sickening odor by the most grateful perfumes; but this trouble will soon be dispensed with, and in all probability he will, at no distant day, become a sloven, with his garments saturated with smoke, ...
— A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco - and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation • Orin Fowler


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