inactivate
verb/ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/
Etymology From inactive + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or in- + activate.
1
To make inactive.
- 'Computer inactivated,' Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye:
- Derived terms
- deinactivate, inactivatable, inactivator, noninactivating, phosphoinactivating, photoinactivate, thermoinactivate, uninactivated
- Related terms
- deactivate, disactivate