Usually means: Make inactive or stop functioning.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word inactivate:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. inactivate: Merriam-Webster
  2. inactivate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inactivate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inactivate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inactivate: Vocabulary.com
  6. inactivate: Wordnik
  7. inactivate: Wiktionary
  8. inactivate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inactivate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inactivate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. inactivate: Dictionary.com
  12. inactivate: Rhymezone
  13. inactivate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. inactivate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. inactivate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inactivate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. inactivate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. inactivate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inactivate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make inactive.

Similar:
deactivate, disactivate, kill, disable, deinactivate, neutralize, turn off, dead, ineffectuate, underactivate, more...

Opposite:
activate, energize, stimulate, animate, invigorate

Types:
deactivate, neutralize, neutralise, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     charcoal, more...

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Similar:
deactivate, disactivate, kill, disable, deinactivate, neutralize, turn off, dead, ineffectuate, underactivate, more...

Opposite:
activate, energize, stimulate, animate, invigorate

Types:
deactivate, neutralize, neutralise, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     charcoal, more...



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