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overneutralizes

overneutralizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overneutralizes

What is overneutralizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overneutralizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overneutralize.

Words near overneutralizes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overneutralizes (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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