See neutralize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"derived": [
{
"word": "bioneutralize"
},
{
"word": "electroneutralize"
},
{
"word": "gender-neutralize"
},
{
"word": "immunoneutralize"
},
{
"word": "neutralizable"
},
{
"word": "neutralization"
},
{
"word": "nonneutralizing"
},
{
"word": "overneutralize"
},
{
"word": "preneutralize"
},
{
"word": "reneutralize"
},
{
"word": "seroneutralize"
},
{
"word": "subneutralizing"
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{
"word": "underneutralize"
},
{
"word": "unneutralized"
}
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"1": "1642"
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{
"text": "The antidote neutralised the toxin.",
"type": "example"
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"To make even, inactive or ineffective."
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"even"
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"inactive"
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[
"ineffective",
"ineffective"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make even, inactive or ineffective."
],
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{
"word": "counteract"
},
{
"word": "counterweigh"
}
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"transitive"
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"ref": "1965, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 1, page 77:",
"text": "All the powers involved are committed not only to stay out of a given territory, but also to reenter it if any one of them violates the independence of the neutralized country.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral."
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"tags": [
"transitive"
]
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{
"categories": [
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"glosses": [
"To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral."
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"chemistry",
"chemistry"
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[
"acidic",
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"alkaline",
"alkaline"
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[
"neutral",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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"topics": [
"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English euphemisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Military"
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{
"ref": "2019, “Mass Effect (Trilogy)”, in Michael M. Levy, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, Aliens in Popular Culture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:",
"text": "At the beginning of the opening game, Shepard becomes the first human Spectre, an elite operative given broad authority to neutralize threats to galactic order in the galaxy.",
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{
"ref": "2023 October 17, Lisa O'Carroll, Miranda Bryant, Lorenzo Tondo, quoting Alexander De Croo, “Killing of two Swedish football fans in Brussels ‘probably lone wolf’ attack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "“We managed to neutralise the guilty person. So there was no longer any imminent threat,” De Croo said, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"To kill."
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[
"military",
"military"
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"kill",
"kill"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill."
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"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈnjuːtɹəlaɪz/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"english": "non-Oxford British English",
"word": "neutralise"
}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "asnjanësoj"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "čʻezokʻacʻnel",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "չեզոքացնել"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralizar"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "njejtralizavácʹ",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "нейтралізава́ць"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neutraliziram",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "неутрализирам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralitzar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhōnghé",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "中和"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǐxiāo",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "抵消"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralisere"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutraliseren"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neŭtraligi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutraloida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralisoida"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutraliser"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralizar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralisieren"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "exoudeteróno",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "εξουδετερώνω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "lenatrél",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "לְנַטְרֵל"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "semlegesít"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralisar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neodraigh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralizzare"
},
{
"alt": "ちゅうわする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chūwa suru",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "中和する"
},
{
"alt": "そうさいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sōsai suru",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "相殺する"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "junghwahada",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "중화하다"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neitralizēt"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "whakangū"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "whakaruhi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "whakangoikore"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "nøytralisere"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "nøytralisere"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "nøytralisera"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralizować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralizar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutraliza"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nejtralizovátʹ",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "нейтрализова́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralizar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "neutralisera"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nejtralizuváty",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "нейтралізува́ти"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "trung lập hóa"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to make even, inactive or ineffective",
"word": "trung hòa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neutraliziram",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "неутрализирам"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "neutraliser"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "exoudeteróno",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "εξουδετερώνω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "lenatrél",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "לְנַטְרֵל"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "semlegesít"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "neutralizzare"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "To make chemically neutral",
"word": "trung hòa"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "lenatrél",
"sense": "To kill (euphemism)",
"word": "לְנַטְרֵל"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "To kill (euphemism)",
"word": "etkisiz hale getirmek"
}
],
"word": "neutralize"
}
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