Definition of Neutralize

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Neutralize

To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.

To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base.

To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference inefficience; to counteract; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc.

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Neutralize Quotations

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Morihei Ueshiba

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.
Dave Reichert

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
Fredric Jameson

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
Frank Knight

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Richard Francis Burton

Neutralize Translations

neutralize in French is neutraliser
neutralize in German is neutralisieren, neutralisieren, kaltstellen
neutralize in Italian is neutralizzare
neutralize in Spanish is neutralizar
neutralize in Swedish is neutralisera

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