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overneutralized

overneutralized is the simple past and past participle of overneutralize.

Meaning of overneutralize

Verb

overneutralize (third-person singular simple present overneutralizes, present participle overneutralizing, simple past and past participle overneutralized)

  1. (transitive) To make more neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) beyond the neutral pH value.
    • If you will overneutralize the colors in the background and increase the Chroma of the colors in the foreground, you will discover that depth will begin to come into your picture.1948, Laurence V. Burton, Week-end Painter, page 175

Questions about overneutralized

What is overneutralized the simple past and past participle of?
Overneutralized is the simple past and past participle of overneutralize.

Words near overneutralized in the dictionary

  1. overnets
  2. overnetted
  3. overnetting
  4. overneutralization
  5. overneutralize
  6. overneutralized
  7. overneutralizes
  8. overneutralizing
  9. overnew
  10. overnice
  11. overnicely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overneutralized (page history and authors); overneutralize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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