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Meaning neutralize meaning

What does neutralize mean?

neutralize

— verb make politically neutral and thus inoffensive The treaty neutralized the small republic — verb (= neutralise, negate) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of Her optimism neutralizes his gloom This action will negate the effect of my efforts — verb (= neutralise) make chemically neutral She neutralized the solution — verb (= neutralise, liquidate) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing The mafia liquidated the informer the double agent was neutralized — verb make incapable of military action — verb (= counteract) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues

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neutralize English » English

neutralise counteract counterbalance offset nullify cancel waste render harmless negate knock off kill do in defuse countervail liquidate invalidate compensate wipe out void vitiate vacate unlive undo take off subvert spay shield shelter set right secure scotch safeguard revolutionize requite repeal repay repair reimburse refute rectify recoup recompense quash put up protect pay overturn overrule override off

Topics neutralize topics

What do people use neutralize to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Peace Make peace

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Conjugation neutralize conjugation

How do you conjugate neutralize?

neutralize · verb

Examples neutralize examples

How do I use neutralize in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Alkalis neutralize acids.

Movie subtitles

Electrify the cold front, neutralize the warm front.
Neutralize that cologne with a some perspiration.
Bergman and his men will neutralize the flak posts.
The one will neutralize the other.
But do you truly believe that by deliberate present-day action we can neutralize that possibility and alter the future?
No antidote has been found to neutralize the virus.
Well, we're going to try and neutralize and dismantle Mentalis here.
Vitamin C is supposed to neutralize the nitrates or something.
You want to neutralize the Duma, don't you?
At that time many of us died until we neutralize the disease.
Well, we can neutralize it.
Blackie, neutralize the electro-scan.
I'll give him something to neutralize it.
It's giving him energy. We've got to neutralize it.
You'll neutralize the alarm.
If we want justice and freedom, help me to neutralize the vice-president.
You won't ever neutralize Kramer. You're a failure.
If our adversaries manage to develop and experiment the detector. They could neutralize our atomic submarines. Which are the greatest retaliation force in the whole Western world.
The foundation wants to find a way to neutralize atomic radiation, to make the peaceful uses of nuclear energy safer for industry and medicine.
He probably figured some way to neutralize the booze. Science is doing stuff like that these days.
Ha! If they can look one over, they'll be able to figure a way to neutralize it.
We don't know how to make it harmless, to neutralize it.
It would seem to me that we have no alternative but to neutralize Mr. Rudolph.
His primary M.O.S., is to suppress, neutralize, or destroy any weapons threatening the integrity of Airwolf.
They're filters that neutralize the close-combat laser-assault weapon.
Now, that's what we have to neutralize.
You won't ever neutralize Kramer.
I hope it can also neutralize the fully developed virus.
I have the formula to neutralize the virus quickly we must demolish the lab.
We'll neutralize the German glanks' fire.
The enemy artillery will at once neutralize them.
I'm telling you, Begerano. I'll neutralize them in 5-1 0 minutes.
Because in order to invent the drug that could neutralize the whole tanker crew, a real specialist was needed.
The Earth has mechanisms to cleanse itself to neutralize the toxic substances in its system.
Unless a way is found to neutralize this monster, we are left with a doomsday weapon.

News and current affairs

There are steps that can and should be taken to attack or neutralize certain types of viruses or bacteria; to reduce vulnerability to infection; and to reduce the consequences of infection if, despite all of our efforts, we become ill.
But these deficiencies should not be enough to neutralize Mexico's powerful geographic advantages and the potent benefits of neo-liberal policies, should they?
So the Mubarak regime has had to use various ploys to neutralize the judge's union.
On the assumption that faster growth will neutralize any threat to debt sustainability, the second arrow receives a B.
Only genuine progress towards a just peace settlement will neutralize them as a political force.
This will require painstaking efforts to promote pro-Russian groups and gradually weaken and neutralize pro-Western circles.
By supporting smart, progressive reforms, politicians should at least be able to neutralize the issue of immigration on Election Day, if not turn it to their advantage.
When shareholders balked, Chubais sought to neutralize his opponents, unilaterally changing the agreement with the Bank of New York to control the votes of most holders of American Depository Rights (ADRs).
Castro, no humanist himself, did his best to neutralize Guevara by appointing him Minister for Industry.
By blending the Soviet past with the Tsarist past and a few shards of Yeltsin-era democracy, Putin seems to think that he can neutralize the extremes of Russian history.
According to media reports, it has devised a strategy for deploying Special Forces to neutralize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event that its authorities lose control.
Protective mechanisms are activated to a greater degree than would be necessary merely to neutralize the threat, resulting in a net beneficial effect.
In 2011, a Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council coalition had to neutralize an Iran-sponsored Shia insurgency in Bahrain.
For Morsi and his supporters, it was imperative to neutralize the Constitutional Court judges, whose ruling last June dissolved the first freely elected, post-revolution People's Assembly (the parliament's lower house).
So, instead of exporting religious radicalism to Yemen, importing its manpower could neutralize Yemen's problems.
It is no coincidence that one of Putin's central aims is to disengage Germany from the West (or at least to neutralize it).

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