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Neutralise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard form of neutralize. British, English, Non-Oxford, alt-of, standard

    "It’s all based on immobilising your opponent, rather than punching or kicking them, which means you learn how to neutralise, for example, a stranger grabbing your wrist."

  2. 2
    make chemically neutral wordnet
  3. 3
    make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of wordnet
  4. 4
    make incapable of military action wordnet
  5. 5
    get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing wordnet

Etymology

From French neutraliser (first attested in 1642). By surface analysis, neutral + -ise.

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