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Neutralise

verb
1.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.  Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste.  "The double agent was neutralized"
2.
Make incapable of military action.  Synonym: neutralize.
3.
Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.  Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify.  "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
4.
Make chemically neutral.  Synonym: neutralize.






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"Neutralise" Quotes from Famous Books



... impressions—to be rid of the notions we have made for ourselves, and that so often only misrepresent the experience of which they profess to be the representation—idola, idols, false appearances, as Bacon calls them later—to neutralise the distorting influence of metaphysical system by an all-accomplished metaphysic skill: it is this bold, hard, sober recognition, under a very "dry light," of its own proper aim, in union with a habit of feeling which on the practical ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume One • Walter Horatio Pater

... crime was an obstacle in his younger son's way. Thus, as ever, his evil deeds came home to roost, and the poisonous seed which he had sown grew up and waved, a bitter harvest, which he had to reap. Repentance and forgiveness did not neutralise the natural consequences of his sin. Nor will they do so for us. God often leaves them to be experienced, that the experience may make us hate ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... is stiff and dead (a few seconds at most) remove it from the acid and rinse it gently with clean, cold water, then transfer it to a solution of ammonium carbonate, lime water, or similarly gentle alkaline material, to neutralise the acid before proceeding with whatever means of preparation you intended. See also the means I describe for preventing ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... dramatic announcement, although they all knew that Maitland sooner or later would assume a position which would link him up with the management of the business. But the suddenness of the change and the dramatic setting of the announcement created an impression so profound as to neutralise completely the ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor

... is the blessing that we need most, for 'iniquities' are universal; and so long as man is bound to his sin it will embitter all sweetnesses, and neutralise every blessing. It is not culture, valuable as that is in many ways, that will avail to stanch man's deepest wounds. It is not a new social order that will still the discontent and the misery of humanity. You may adopt collective economic and social arrangements, and divide ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren


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