Verb (used with object) : carelessness that neutralized our efforts. ,to neutralize an enemy position. ,to neutralize a city to prevent bombing.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : With this additive the solution begins to neutralize.    From Dictionary.com. 

Some have even been "neutralised" and gone on to become.    From Wordnik.com.  [shanghai fish] Reference

But it said Mauritania's action had "neutralised" the group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

He describes some provisions as being "neutralised" for some firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

French forces provided logistical support for a Mauritanian raid that "neutralised" an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Story] Reference

Visagie said that Terre'blanche's only security were his dogs which were "neutralised".    From Wordnik.com.  [News24 Top Stories] Reference

The FSB has said security forces "neutralised" Begov after storming a private house in Dagestan's capital of Makhachkala on Sunday morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

Offset companies give the idea that emissions are instantly "neutralised" when in fact the supposed "neutralisation" can take place over periods of up to a hundred years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Blog] Reference

Marked to be 'neutralised' in witness tampering allegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stabroek News] Reference

"neutralised" Democratic Party (its sole MPL is the Speaker), the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

'neutralised' is far slower than the rate at which they are generated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Blog] Reference

"neutralised", the danger posed to Israel and others by Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in south Lebanon would be reduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference

"draft counter-revolutionary strategy", which said leaders of anti-apartheid activists in black townships should be "neutralised" by means of "Operation Vasvat".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The hydrolysed extract was neutralised and fermented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

Even the success he won was neutralised by the activity of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

A piece of calf skin immersed in a solution of the partly neutralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Synthetic Tannins] Reference

A piece of pelt was immersed in a half-neutralised solution, measuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Synthetic Tannins] Reference

The following table gives the figures obtained by differently neutralised neradols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Synthetic Tannins] Reference

The greasy substance is partly neutralised with alkali and is claimed to produce a very springy leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Synthetic Tannins] Reference

A solution of the half-neutralised substance (1gm. = 20 c.c. N/10 NaOH) gives the following reactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Synthetic Tannins] Reference

This neutralised his efforts, but he could not help it, for the axe splashed in the sea before touching the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

He was no prig, and Thérèse was attractive, yet the distaste he felt for the situation neutralised her power to lure him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

The aniline salt is dissolved in as little hot water as possible and neutralised with a small amount of aniline oil (10 lb.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference

On the first ballot eight States voted for Jefferson and six for Burr, Vermont and Maryland being neutralised by an even party division.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Their power was of an immediate, abrupt, and purely despotic kind, which would have been neutralised or weakened by anything like a central control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Mr. Lyon of Vermont was in this instance an important man; he neutralised the vote of Vermont; his absence alone would have given the State to Mr. Burr.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

The filtrate is neutralised with barium carbonate, evaporated to 50 c.c., and the glycerol estimated by the bichromate method detailed under Crude Glycerine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

The law is neutralised, and made nearly a dead letter, by the state of feeling that prevails on the subject, and by the other obstacles to which we have referred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference