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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To render inactive.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render inactive: applied to an immune serum the complement of which is being destroyed by heat or by age. Such a serum can be reactivated by the addition of fresh serum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb to make inactive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make inactive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb release from military service or remove from the active list of military service
  • verb make inactive

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From inactive + -ate.

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synonyms (24)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bugger
  2. cripple
  3. de-energize
  4. deactivate
  5. debilitate
  6. disable
  7. disenable
  8. drain
  9. enfeeble
  10. hamstring
  11. hors de combat
  12. incapacitate
  13. kibosh
  14. lame
  15. maim
  16. put
  17. queer
  18. queer the works
  19. sabotage
  20. spike
  21. unfit
  22. weaken
  23. wing
  24. wreck

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. discharge
  2. muster out

forms (3)

Forms

  1. inactivated
  2. inactivates
  3. inactivating

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. deactivate

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