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. 

The U.S. military said the seven-day operation "neutralized" an insurgent sanctuary.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

Since March, 10 of its top 18 leaders have been "neutralized," the senior intelligence official said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq's Failure to Form a Government Concerns U.S. Spy Officials] Reference

What she appears to be is a former political force in America who has been "neutralized" by the Obama administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Korea: Clinton 'funny lady, by no means intelligent'] Reference

More 'Bucks sandwiches, now with "neutralized" cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curbed SF] Reference

But it said Mauritania's action had "neutralized" the group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

As for a unified Korea modeled after the "neutralized" Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom] Reference

Swimmers loitering under the boat could have "neutralized" the pirates when the capt went into the drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

(I'm still trying to figure out what "neutralized" means if they were not killed, captured, or "turned"?).    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

"This has kind of neutralized Canada's conservative movement, because Stephen Harper is our guy," he said in an interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference

"neutralized" in recent years, and the numbers have prompted a couple of ... questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [axisoflogic.com] Reference

'neutralized' certain doctors who were not as friendly to their products by giving these doctors research projects and other funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Healthy Blog] Reference

House Republicans know they’re in the last throes of power, with Democrats having "neutralized" the only issue they had going for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » The Rats Desert Dubya’s Dubai Ship (updated)] Reference

Even the incentive to do him good in a great degree is neutralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

"I've neutralized myself from the political aspects of it," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights, Camera, Nixon!] Reference

That threat had to be neutralized, and we did that in the first weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meles Zenawi: An Impatient Ally] Reference

Unless the attaches are neutralized, they said, GIs may soon become targets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught In The Middle] Reference

But for most of the postwar era, a pro-trade consensus neutralized this opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye, Free Trade; Hello, Mercantilism] Reference

Their managers bought currency hedges, which neutralized the profitable dollar play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Investing: A New Slant] Reference

Their retreat has neutralized the emerging growth sectors (exports and industrial investment).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recovery Is Coming] Reference

With six of 10 voters, this line neutralized the Slick Willie image and fears about higher taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Room Drill] Reference

GOOG) can now say it has "neutralized" all of the company's emissions from 2007 and some from 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

But this is easily neutralized by plopping Mr. F on the floor, where my calves make less tender targets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Gresko: When Baby Starts Testing Limits, Daddy Tries Discipline] Reference

Washington has declared several times that the insurgency would soon be defeated or at least mostly neutralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hell to Pay] Reference

He did not annihilate him, the word does not mean that, but He neutralized, counteracted, stripped him of his power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference

"Most of our employees have no idea when they are hit or that the McAfee system neutralized whatever it was," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Attack In The Workplace] Reference

"Bush's legacy can be easily neutralized if he's unable to change the courts," says American Values president Gary Bauer.    From Wordnik.com.  [OF PRAYER AND PAYBACK] Reference

Hamas wants simply to eliminate Israel, a sovereign member of the U.N. Hamas should not be neutralized, it must be destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bloody Battle] Reference

After a generation of being clobbered on the issue, Republicans are anxious to see Social Security neutralized once and for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill's Social Security Schmooze] Reference

Stem-cell research, once thought to be a potent issue for Democrats, has been neutralized politically by a medical breakthrough.    From Wordnik.com.  [’Twas the Month Before Iowa ...] Reference

And to the extent that she might fail to do Obama's bidding, she would be ignored, neutralized and ultimately rendered irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Rodham Powell?] Reference

As a result, says Gong Sung Jin, a leading member of the GNP in Parliament, such "power agencies" "have been politically neutralized.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road of No Return] Reference

They also feel that with the dismemberment of the Iraqi military, one of the two most threatening Third World powers has been neutralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Cutbacks In Military Money] Reference