The adjective secular means to be not religious or not connected with religion.

Wat Pho will hold a grand merit-making ceremony in honour of King Rama III, who commissioned the inscription of the country's religious and secular knowledge.

"Turkey is secular and will stay secular!" they shouted, turning the whole area bright red with thousands of national flags.

In Wales, schools are encouraged to teach children about "Christianity and the other principal religions in Great Britain" but there is no mention of secular philosophies.

A new dress code has been brought in by army chiefs who want a sterner, more secular appearance for its soldiers.

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The verb neutralise means to stop something from having an effect.

‘It is now much easier for troops to break in now and neutralise the remaining resistance,’’ an army source said, adding security forces could go for the final push under the cover of darkness.

Pacquiao would not detail how he and trainer Freddie Roach planned to neutralise the Englishman's strengths.

The potatoes add a little thickness and neutralise the bitterness of the rucola so that the flavour is smoothly green and earthy, and you can almost feel it doing you good.

Mr Medvedev said the Iskander missiles were being deployed to ``neutralise'' the threat from planned US missile interceptors in Poland and radar facilities in the Czech Republic.

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