passify

Verb

passify (third-person singular simple present passifies, present participle passifying, simple past and past participle passified)

1. (rare) To make or become passive.
   • The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you "passify" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary "to be" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle of the verb.1983, Barry Tarshis, How to Write Like a Pro: A Guide to Effective Nonfiction Writing
   • For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify them[.]1997, 1997 American Control Conference, volume 1, of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISBN, page 2657

   Synonyms:

   passivize