To neuter an organization, group, or person means to make them powerless and ineffective.
例句
...the Government's 'hidden agenda' to neuter local authorities...削夺地方政府权力的政府“秘密议程”Their air force had been neutered before the work began.任务开始之前他们的空军就已经丧失了威力。
ADJ
(某些语言中名词、代词、形容词等)中性的
In some languages, a neuter noun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a masculine or feminine one, or behaves in a different way.
英英词典释义
Noun
1. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Verb
1. remove the ovaries of;
"Is your cat spayed?"
Adjective
1. of grammatical gender;
"`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
2. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs