From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
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*** Etymology
From [en] ([1642]).[1] [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To make even , inactive or ineffective .
2. [en] To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1965 | author=United States. Congress. Senate | title=Hearings | volume=1 | page=77
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral .
2. [en] To kill .
3. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2019 |chapter=_Mass Effect_ (Trilogy) |editors=w:Michael M. Levy;
w:Farah Mendlesohn |title=Aliens in Popular Culture
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GFHEEAAAQBAJ |publisher=w:ABC-CLIO
|ISBN=978-1-4408-3832-3 |LCCN=2018047458 |OCLC=1061035804 |page=175
|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GFHEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA175 |text=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.}}
1. * [en-GB]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to make even, inactive or ineffective]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
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- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
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- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[To make chemically neutral]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[To kill (euphemism)]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Turkish: [tr]
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** Portuguese
*** Verb
[pt]
1. [neutralizar]