Associations to the word «Neutralise»

Wiktionary

NEUTRALISE, verb. To make inactive or ineffective.

Dictionary definition

NEUTRALISE, verb. Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized".
NEUTRALISE, verb. Make incapable of military action.
NEUTRALISE, verb. Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts".
NEUTRALISE, verb. Make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats