neutralise

See also: neutralisé

English

Alternative forms

• neutralize (American)

Etymology

From French neutraliser. Surface etymology is neutral +‎ -ise

Verb

neutralise (third-person singular simple present neutralises, present participle neutralising, simple past and past participle neutralised)

1. (transitive) To make even, inactive or ineffective.

   The antidote neutralised the toxin.

2. (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
   • 1965, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings (volume 1, page 77)

     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.

3. (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.

Synonyms

• counteract
• counterweigh

Related terms

• neutralisation

Translations

to make even, inactive or ineffective

• Albanian: asnjanësoj (sq)
• Armenian: չեզոքացնել (hy) (čʿezokʿacʿnel)
• Catalan: neutralitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中和 (zh) (zhōnghé), 抵消 (zh) (dǐxiāo)

• Danish: neutralisere
• Dutch: neutraliseren (nl)
• Esperanto: neŭtraligi
• Finnish: neutraloida (fi), neutralisoida (fi)
• French: neutraliser (fr)
• German: neutralisieren (de)
• Greek: εξουδετερώνω (el) (exoudeteróno)
• Interlingua: neutralisar
• Interlingue: neutralisar
• Irish: neodraigh

• Italian: neutralizzare (it)
• Japanese: 中和する (ja) (ちゅうわする, chūwa suru), 相殺する (ja) (そうさいする, sōsai suru)
• Korean: 중화하다 (junghwahada)
• Latvian: neitralizēt
• Maori: whakangū, whakaruhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nøytralisere

  Nynorsk: nøytralisere, nøytralisera

• Polish: neutralizować
• Portuguese: neutralizar (pt)
• Romanian: neutraliza (ro)
• Russian: нейтрализова́ть (ru) impf or pf (nejtralizovátʹ)
• Spanish: neutralizar (es)
• Swedish: neutralisera (sv)

Anagrams

• laurestine, lineatures, reinsulate

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French

Verb

neutralise

1. first-person singular present indicative of neutraliser
2. third-person singular present indicative of neutraliser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of neutraliser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of neutraliser
5. second-person singular imperative of neutraliser