Search Result for "neutralise":
Wordnet 3.0
VERB (4)
1. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;
- Example: "The mafia liquidated the informer"
- Example: "the double agent was neutralized"
[syn: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in]
2. make incapable of military action;
[syn: neutralize, neutralise]
3. make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of;
- Example: "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"
- Example: "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
[syn: neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate]
4. make chemically neutral;
- Example: "She neutralized the solution"
[syn: neutralize, neutralise]
