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What does neutralise mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word neutralise? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make inactive or ineffective.
  2. (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
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In 1991, an eight-man SAS team was dropped into northern Iraq to recon mobile Scud launchers and neutralise them.
In each case, the machinery of government was used against the citizens to consolidate power and neutralise opposition.
The last mission of his premiership will be finding policies to neutralise both.
That would neutralise the power player enough that the shorter-hitter could compete.
When he did, he was wont to laugh at himself, and so neutralise the laugh raised against him.
But it is also important to neutralise the impact on the domestic economy, which may turn out to be costly.

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