make inert
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The ability of caustic lime to improve the physical condition of land and to make inert plant food available has led many farmers to treat it as a substitute for manure, sods and commercial fertilizers.
From Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva
Neu′tralise, to declare by convention any nation permanently neutral or neutral during certain hostilities: to make inert: to render of no effect.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
