Word.ws English Dictionary

inactivates

inactivates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inactivate.

Meaning of inactivate

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make inactive.
    • 'Computer inactivated,' Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye

Questions about inactivates

What is inactivates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Inactivates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inactivate.

Words near inactivates in the dictionary

  1. inactions
  2. inactivable
  3. inactivatable
  4. inactivate
  5. inactivated
  6. inactivates
  7. inactivating
  8. inactivation
  9. inactivations
  10. inactivator
  11. inactivators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inactivates (page history and authors); inactivate (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “inactivates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/inactivates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.