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Definition of Neutralise

1. Verb. Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing. "They want to neutralise the prisoners "; "The double agent was neutralized"

2. Verb. Make incapable of military action.

3. Verb. Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of. "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"

4. Verb. Make chemically neutral. "She neutralized the solution"

Definition of Neutralise

1. Verb. To make inactive or ineffective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Neutralise

1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]

Medical Definition of Neutralise

1. To effect neutralization. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neutralise

neutral oxide neutral point neutral protease neutral reaction neutral red neutral spirits neutral stain neutral stimulus neutral third neutral zone

neutralino neutralinos neutralisation neutralisation reaction neutralisations neutralise (current term) neutralised neutraliser neutralisers neutralises

neutralising neutralism neutralisms neutralist neutralistic neutralists neutralities neutrality neutralizability neutralizable

Literary usage of Neutralise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Now, though a London street is full of distractions, they become so multitudinous that they neutralise each other. The whirl of conflicting impulses becomes ..."

2. Immunochemistry: The Application of the Principles of Physical Chemistry to by Svante Arrhenius (1907)
"When we have added the acid necessary to neutralise the free alkali (point B\ we have still to add a small quantity to neutralise the alkali bound in the ..."

3. Contemporary France by Gabriel Hanotaux (1907)
"First Ballot; the Right and the Left neutralise each other.—Compact between the Extreme Right, the Bonapartists and the Left.—The 75 Life-Senators. IV. ..."

4. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms: With by Charles Darwin (1904)
"... pair of glands—The calcareous matter primarily an excretion, but secondarily serves to neutralise the acids generated during the digestive process. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"... of marble to neutralise hydrochloric acid as fast as it is formed. It is then precipitated as a yellow ..."

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