neutralise

See also: neutralisé

English

Alternative forms

• neutralize (American)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French neutraliser. Surface etymology is neutral +‎ -ise

Verb

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) (čʻezokʻacʻnel)
• 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:
• Irish: neodraigh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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