overneutralize

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verb

To make more neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) beyond the neutral pH value.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person overneutralizes · participle present overneutralizing · participle past overneutralized · past overneutralized

  1. transitiveTo make more neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) beyond the neutral pH value.

    The electrons overneutralize and underneutralize the beam.

    2013, Stanley Humphries, Charged Particle Beams, page 506
    1 more example

    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

Origin

From over- + neutralize.

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Chicago

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