neutralization

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noun action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war
noun a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water
noun (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)

Borrowed from French neutralisation. By surface analysis, neutral + -ization or neutralize + -ation.

The Boise is taking off, under full neutralization. — Triplanetary, E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
There is this Philippine bearing to the incident that the same stripe of unpractical philanthropists, not discouraged at having forced the Samoans under the ungentle German rule--for their victims and not themselves suffer by their mistakes, are seeking now the neutralization by international agreement of the Archipelago for which Rizal gave his life. — The Philippines a Century Hence, José Rizal
The idea that some family skeleton, like those he had read of in memoirs, had been unearthed by Louis, and held before her terrified understanding as a matter which rendered Swithin's departure, and the neutralization of the marriage, no less indispensable to them than it was an advantage to himself, seemed a very plausible one to Swithin just now. — Two on a Tower, Thomas Hardy

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