The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neutralize \Neu"tral*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neutralized; p. pr. & vb. n. Neutralizing.] [Cf. F. neutraliser.]
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To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
So here I am neutralized again.
--Sir W. Scott. (Chem.) To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base.
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To destroy the peculiar properties or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference or inefficiency; to counteract; to render ineffective; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc.
Counter citations that neutralize each other.
--E. Everett.
Wiktionary
vb. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of neutralising lang=en nodot=t); (present participle of neutralize lang=en nocap=t)
Usage examples of "neutralizing".
One might think that this would be determined by a hormone that is secreted at the proper time, neutralizing ecdysone, ending the molts, and initiating metamorphosis.
Why this should be we cannot yet tell, but this point of putting the oxygen on, then neutralizing it, results in a mineralocorticoid that is much more powerful than any of those in which the oxygen is absent in the first place.
To look for a record intelligence, then, we must find a group of animals that had developed large brains without neutralizing this by developing excessively huge bodies.
Juno had easily subdued him by neutralizing the thoughtrode connections that linked his brain to its walker-form.
Behind us, I heard crashing noises and gunshots as the Gaters began neutralizing the security system and breaking inside.
It is inconceivable that Hel would try to enter England to put the Septembrists away without first neutralizing the British police.
Infantry follows closely, neutralizing the trenches, swarming into the breaches cut by the tanks, holding the gains while the tanks move on.
To repeat: The Precrime Agency of the Federal Westbloc Government is in the process of locating and neutralizing its former Commissioner, John Allison Anderton, who, through the methodology of the precrime-system, is hereby declared a potential murderer and as such forfeits his rights to freedom and all its privileges.
The American method demands no such antagonism, no neutralizing of one social force by another, but avails itself of all the forces of society, organizes them dialectically, not antagonistically, and thus protects with, equal efficiency both public authority and private rights.
I remember that trick of his you mentioned, of neutralizing the leucocytes in your body.
They tried devising phages and antigens, but he always seemed to be one step ahead, neutralizing their code and disabling their systems as soon as they got them running again.
This spiritual chemicalization is the upheaval produced when Truth is neutralizing error, and impurities are passing off.
The obvious explanation was that he had actually had this new disease, and that it had combatted with the snake-venom in his blood, the one neutralizing the other.
On a second cotton ball he poured petroleum distillate, the neutralizing agent.
His Skin deployed its aerosol nozzle and sprayed the area with a multispectrum neutralizing agent.