inactivate
/ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/
inactivate verb: to make inactive.
Verb
inactivate (third-person singular simple present inactivates, present participle inactivating, simple past and past participle inactivated)
- To make inactive.
- 'Computer inactivated,' Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
inactivate meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
inactivate in Tamil
- கிளாவு அழி
inactivate in Bengali
- নিষ্ক্রিয় করা, অকেজো করা, কার্যকারিতা বন্ধ করা
inactivate in Malayalam
- deactivate, disable, make inoperative
- നിർവീര്യമാക്കുക, പ്രയോഗക്ഷമമല്ലാതാക്കുക, അസ്തശക്തമാക്കുക, നിർജ്ജീവമാക്കുക, നിഷ്ക്രിയമാക്കുക, ദുര്ബ്ബലപ്പെടുത്തുക
Forms of inactivate
| third-person singular present | inactivates |
|---|---|
| present participle | inactivating |
| past participle | inactivated |
| past | inactivated |
Origin of inactivate
From inactive + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or in- + activate.
Words formed from inactivate
Questions about inactivate
- What does inactivate mean?
- Inactivate means to make inactive.
- What is inactivate in Tamil?
- Inactivate in Tamil is கிளாவு அழி. See Inactivate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is inactivate?
- Inactivate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce inactivate?
- Inactivate is pronounced /ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/.
- What is the past tense of inactivate?
- The past tense of inactivate is inactivated.
Words near inactivate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inactivate (page history and authors); inactivate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Inactivate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inactivate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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