"Neutralize" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
To render neutral; to reduce to a state of
neutrality.
To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of;
to reduce to a state of indifference inefficience; to counteract; as,
to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition,
etc.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance …
Read the complete definitionA limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing …
Read the complete definitionIndifferent or neutral.
Read the complete definitionOne of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in …
Read the complete definitionPartly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.
Read the complete definitionAnything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.
Read the complete definitionA west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that …
Read the complete definitionTo equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
Read the complete definitionThe positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms …
Read the complete definitionHaving the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding …
Read the complete definitionIu iuternational lnw. A term used to designate either of two na-tions wbicb are actually ln a state of war …
Read the complete definitionln international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of olrcumvallatlon round a place …
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Read the complete definitionCertaln classes of merchandise, such as arms and ammunition, whlch, by the rules of lntema-tlonal law, cannot lawfully be furnlshed …
Read the complete definitionOne of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and …
Read the complete definitionAn infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- …
Read the complete definitionA gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
Read the complete definitionA neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or …
Read the complete definitionA compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized …
Read the complete definitionNot active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms …
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