verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congress can try to neutralize new legislation by modifying it or delaying it.
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Government forces neutralized the rebels.
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Recent events have done much to neutralize the influence of the right-wing.
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The Oilers managed to neutralize the other team's defenses.
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This fertilizer neutralizes the salts in the soil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even good ideas are frequently contained in banal packages that neutralize the virtues they possess.
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He neutralized the obscenity by touching the tip of one finger.
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In effect the researcher uses the null form in order to neutralize his own bias regarding outcome.
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In flight, you immediately pushed the collective fully down to neutralize the pitch angle.
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In other words, the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling.
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The effectiveness of this measure has now been neutralized, in order to boost private welfare.
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The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention, to ensure the military security of the Republic.
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Two hot areas: products for dieters and antioxidants, which are thought to neutralize so-called free radicals that can damage cells.