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Neutralized   /nˈutrəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
Neutralized

adjective
1.
Made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics.  Synonym: neutralised.


Neutralize

verb
(past & past part. neutralized; pres. part. neutralizing)
1.
Make politically neutral and thus inoffensive.
2.
Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.  Synonyms: negate, neutralise, nullify.  "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
3.
Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions.  Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, countervail.
4.
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.  Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, waste.  "The double agent was neutralized"
5.
Make incapable of military action.  Synonym: neutralise.
6.
Make chemically neutral.  Synonym: neutralise.





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"Neutralized" Quotes from Famous Books



... granted that she knew it. For the first time, too, Anna could not say to Rex what was continually in her mind. Perhaps it might have been a pain which she would have had to conceal, that he should so soon care for some one else more than for herself, if such a feeling had not been thoroughly neutralized by doubt and anxiety on his behalf. Anna admired her cousin—would have said with simple sincerity, "Gwendolen is always very good to me," and held it in the order of things for herself to be entirely subject to this cousin; but she looked at her with mingled ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... work was neutralized by his lack of common sense detracts nothing from the world's debt to Ruskin. The simple truth is that he was a reformer as well as a great writer, and the very fervor of his religious and social beliefs, his contempt of mere ...
— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch
... quietly. Important business had been transacted, with no sign of distrust or discontent on the part of the government as regarded Motley. Whatever mistake he was thought to have committed was condoned by amicable treatment, neutralized by the virtual indorsement of the government in the instructions of the 25th of September, and obsolete as a ground of quarrel by lapse of time. The question about which the misunderstanding, if such it deserves to be called, had taken place, was no longer a ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... chair, and bit her lip. This man was too keen for her. She had no illusions. He had seen through her as if she had been made of glass; he had penetrated her artifices and detected her falsehoods. Yet feigning to believe her and them, he had first neutralized her only weapons—other than offensive—then used them for her own defeat. Marius it was who took up ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... fulfilled. The abolition of slavery was recognized on the statute book, and the civil rights of owning property and appearing as a witness in cases in which he was a party were generally granted the Negro; yet with these in many cases went harsh and unbearable regulations which largely neutralized the concessions and certainly gave ground for an assumption that, once free, the South would virtually reenslave the Negro. The colored people themselves naturally feared this, protesting, as in Mississippi, "against the reactionary policy prevailing and expressing the fear ...
— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois


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