Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to neutralize
Participle: neutralized
Gerund: neutralizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | neutralize |
| you | neutralize |
| he;she;it | neutralizes |
| we | neutralize |
| you | neutralize |
| they | neutralize |
Perfect
| I | have neutralized |
| you | have neutralized |
| he;she;it | has neutralized |
| we | have neutralized |
| you | have neutralized |
| they | have neutralized |
Past
| I | neutralized |
| you | neutralized |
| he;she;it | neutralized |
| we | neutralized |
| you | neutralized |
| they | neutralized |
Pluperfect
| I | had neutralized |
| you | had neutralized |
| he;she;it | had neutralized |
| we | had neutralized |
| you | had neutralized |
| they | had neutralized |
Future
| I | will neutralize |
| you | will neutralize |
| he;she;it | will neutralize |
| we | will neutralize |
| you | will neutralize |
| they | will neutralize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have neutralized |
| you | will have neutralized |
| he;she;it | will have neutralized |
| we | will have neutralized |
| you | will have neutralized |
| they | will have neutralized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | neutralize |
| you | neutralize |
| he;she;it | neutralize |
| we | neutralize |
| you | neutralize |
| they | neutralize |
Perfect
| I | have neutralized |
| you | have neutralized |
| he;she;it | have neutralized |
| we | have neutralized |
| you | have neutralized |
| they | have neutralized |
Imperfect
| I | neutralized |
| you | neutralized |
| he;she;it | neutralized |
| we | neutralized |
| you | neutralized |
| they | neutralized |
Pluperfect
| I | had neutralized |
| you | had neutralized |
| he;she;it | had neutralized |
| we | had neutralized |
| you | had neutralized |
| they | had neutralized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would neutralize |
| you | would neutralize |
| he;she;it | would neutralize |
| we | would neutralize |
| you | would neutralize |
| they | would neutralize |
Perfect
| I | would have neutralized |
| you | would have neutralized |
| he;she;it | would have neutralized |
| we | would have neutralized |
| you | would have neutralized |
| they | would have neutralized |
Imperative
| you | neutralize |
| we | Let's neutralize |
| you | neutralize |
Verbs conjugated like 'neutralize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'neutralize'
neuralize,
neutralise,
centralize,
deneutralize,
neuralise,
reneutralize,
ventralize,
auralize,
australize,
bestialize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to put to death; to extinguish life.
- annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
- offset
- counterbalance, inactivate, negate, nullify, balance, counter, annul
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1759, "to render neutral" (in a chemical sense), from Fr.
neutraliser, from
neutral (see neutral). Meaning "to counterbalance, to kill by opposing" is from 1795.
2. From French neutraliser (first attested in 1642). By surface analysis, neutral + -ize. See: French '
neutraliser'.
Sample Sentences
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The antidote neutralized the toxin.
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It’s possible that some microbes don’t just take up residence in tumors but help them grow. They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body. [2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2022:]
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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. [1965, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 1, page 77:]
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At the beginning of the opening game, Shepard becomes the first human Spectre, an elite operative given broad authority to neutralize threats to galactic order in the galaxy. [2019, “Mass Effect (Trilogy)”, in Michael M. Levy, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, Aliens in Popular Culture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:]
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“We managed to neutralise the guilty person. So there was no longer any imminent threat,” De Croo said, […] [2023 October 17, Lisa O'Carroll, Miranda Bryant, Lorenzo Tondo, quoting Alexander De Croo, “Killing of two Swedish football fans in Brussels ‘probably lone wolf’ attack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023:]