Timeline for A word to describe the action of rendering a harmful person powerless
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 3:52 | comment | added | vickyace | @Jylo Or maybe ineffective means dead to all armies today. :) | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 12:13 | comment | added | Jylo | Neutralize is the perfect word for this but you can see in the example that its becoming an euphemism for "killing" more and more. ("The army neutralized the threat" : probably killed someone with a drone) | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 10:33 | vote | accept | NibblyPig | ||
| Mar 25, 2017 at 22:55 | comment | added | Kevin Mark | I think this lacks the subjective, emotional content that the question appears to call for. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 18:30 | comment | added | vickyace | Hey @Ricky. I just learned something new from your comments. Could you please tell me where can I find more on such usage? Is it a slang? | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 18:22 | comment | added | Ricky | True. These days, though, the natural continuation of the phrase "I neutralized" would be " ... the motherf***cker by ..." which may not be the effect the OP is seeking. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 17:43 | history | answered | vickyace | CC BY-SA 3.0 |