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Meanings of neutralize in English

Portuguese
neutralizar
Catalan
neutralitzar
Spanish
neutralizar

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.

        neutralizar
        Portuguese
        neutralizar
        Catalan
        invalidar
        Spanish
        anular

        Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.

              neutralizar
              Portuguese
              neutralizar
              Catalan
              neutralitzar

              Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions.

                    neutralizar
                    Usage of neutralize in English
                    1
                    Their wider aim is to neutralize the power of the Shinawatra family.
                    Reuters
                    2
                    Intervention Brigade with a mandate to neutralize armed groups across the region.
                    Reuters
                    3
                    In a way, though, Google's attempts to neutralize the walkout had worked.
                    Wired
                    4
                    Another ugly-looking circumstance also intervened to neutralize the favorable impression thus made.
                    Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
                    5
                    If that is so, then the second blow may neutralize the first.
                    Gloria and Treeless Street
                    6
                    Not even the dark villainies which have disgraced humanity can neutralize it.
                    The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
                    7
                    Both things would be lies, but the one would neutralize the other.
                    The World for Sale, Volume 2.
                    8
                    An antidote could promptly neutralize the anticoagulant effects of both FXa inhibitors.
                    Pubmed
                    9
                    It should be kept moderate, any excess tending to neutralize the colours.
                    Things To Make
                    10
                    Meeting here on central ground, partial aristocracies tend to neutralize each other.
                    Oldport Days
                    11
                    It was suggested that SOD was consumed to neutralize the paraquat toxicity.
                    Pubmed
                    12
                    Some of the positions were supposed to offset, or neutralize, one another.
                    Reuters
                    13
                    These recidivism models are supposed to neutralize the prejudices of the judges.
                    Reuters
                    14
                    They neutralize each other and we are left as they found us.
                    The Poison Belt
                    15
                    I had to act just as quickly to neutralize that cyanide, too.
                    Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
                    16
                    Some tried to neutralize surveillance cameras by targeting them with laser pointers.
                    Reuters
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                    Translations for neutralize
                    Neutralize through the time
                    Neutralize across language varieties
                    United States of America
                    Common
                    United Kingdom
                    Less common