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neutralized

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neu·tral·ize  (ntr-lz, ny-)
tr.v. neu·tral·ized, neu·tral·iz·ing, neu·tral·iz·es
1. To make neutral.
2. To counterbalance or counteract the effect of; render ineffective.
3. To declare neutral and therefore inviolable during a war.
4. Chemistry
a. To make (a solution) neutral.
b. To cause (an acid or base) to undergo neutralization.
5. Medicine To counteract the effect of (a drug or toxin).
6. Slang To remove as a threat, especially by killing.
neutral·izer n.
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Adj.1.neutralized - made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics
neutralised
neutral - possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics


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No one-sided portrait, --no wholesale complaints,--but strict justice done, whenever individual kindliness has neutralized, for a moment, the deadly system with which it was strangely allied.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
They cordially hated them; but the impulses of their resentment were neutralized by their dread of the floating batteries, which lay with their fatal tubes ostentatiously pointed, not at fortifications and redoubts, but at a handful of bamboo sheds, sheltered in a grove of cocoanuts
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
His obvious wish to explain something puzzled her, interested her, and neutralized the wound to her vanity.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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