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inactuating

inactuating is the present participle and gerund of inactuate.

Meaning of inactuate

Verb

inactuate (third-person singular simple present inactuates, present participle inactuating, simple past and past participle inactuated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To put into action; to activate.
    • For the plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body.1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises

Questions about inactuating

What is inactuating the present participle and gerund of?
Inactuating is the present participle and gerund of inactuate.

Words near inactuating in the dictionary

  1. inactivity
  2. inactose
  3. inactuate
  4. inactuated
  5. inactuates
  6. inactuating
  7. inactuation
  8. inadaptabilities
  9. inadaptability
  10. inadaptable
  11. inadaptation

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