Results for neutralise

Definitions of neutralise:

To render neutral or inert; to counteract or render imperceptible the properties of a body by causing it to combine with another of different properties.

Usage examples for neutralise:

• Both seemed to neutralise each other. "On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote", A. Mueller

• " Though, by my troth," added he, returning sneer for sneer, " you should strive hard to obtain it; you stand in need of a trophy to neutralise the loss of your spurs left behind you in the ford of Newburn." "The White Gauntlet", Mayne Reid

• Moreover, in their own stronghold they would prove a terribly formidable enemy, and the king's troops were only twice their number, odds which the advantage of the ground would go far to neutralise "The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley", Bertram Mitford