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neutralize
neu·tral·ize [ ntrə lz ] (past and past participle neu·tral·ized, present participle neu·tral·iz·ing, 3rd person present singular neu·tral·iz·es)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
1. render something ineffective: to make something ineffective, especially by removing its ability to act as a threat or obstacle
2. politics make country unaligned: to make or declare a country unaligned in a war or dispute
3. chemistry make something neither acid nor alkaline: to render a substance neither acid nor alkaline
4. physics make charge zero: to make the electric charge or potential of something zero

neu·tral·i·za·tion [ ntrəli záysh'n ] noun
neu·tral·iz·er [ ntrə lzər ] noun
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