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inactivating

inactivating is the present participle and gerund 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

Words formed from inactivating

Questions about inactivating

What is inactivating the present participle and gerund of?
Inactivating is the present participle and gerund of inactivate.

Words near inactivating in the dictionary

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

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