neutralise

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neutralise - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  neutralise
      v 1: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The
           mafia liquidated the informer"; "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; "Her
         optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the
         effect of my efforts" [syn: neutralize, neutralise,
         nullify, negate]
      4: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution" [syn:
         neutralize, neutralise]