inactivate

English

Etymology

From inactive +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix) or in- +‎ activate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/

Verb

inactivate (third-person singular simple present inactivates, present participle inactivating, simple past and past participle inactivated)

1. (transitive) To make inactive.
   • 1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye:

     'Computer inactivated,' Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'

Derived terms

• deinactivate
• inactivatable
• inactivator
• noninactivating
• phosphoinactivating
• photoinactivate
• thermoinactivate
• uninactivated

Translations

to put out of action

Chinese: Mandarin: 使不活動 / 使不活动 (shǐ bùhuódòng) Japanese: 不活発にする (ふかっぱつにする, fukappatsuni-suru) Maori: whakakaurapa

See also

• deactivate
• disactivate

Anagrams

• vaticinate

Spanish

Verb

inactivate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of inactivar combined with te