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)

(transitive) To make inactive or ineffective.
The antidote neutralised the toxin.
(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.
(transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.

Translations

to make inactive or ineffective

Albanian: asnjanësoj (sq)
Armenian: չեզոքացնել (hy) (čʿezokʿacʿnel)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中和 (zh) (zhōnghé)
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)
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)

Related terms

neutralisation

Anagrams

laurestine, lineatures, reinsulate

French

Verb

neutralise

first-person singular present indicative of neutraliser
third-person singular present indicative of neutraliser
first-person singular present subjunctive of neutraliser
third-person singular present subjunctive of neutraliser
second-person singular imperative of neutraliser