verb
- Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.
- usage: "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
- synonyms: neutralize, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
- Make incapable of military action.
- synonyms: neutralize
- Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.
- usage: "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
- synonyms: neutralize, nullify, negate
- Make chemically neutral.
- usage: "She neutralized the solution"
- synonyms: neutralize
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