"inactivate" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "in- + activate",
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  "etymology_text": "inactive + -ate or in- + activate",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "inactivates",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "inactivating",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "inactivated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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      "form": "inactivated",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "inactivatable"
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          "ref": "1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye",
          "text": "'Computer inactivated,' Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make inactive."
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          "inactive",
          "inactive"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make inactive."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "deactivate"
        },
        {
          "word": "disactivate"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to put out of action",
          "word": "使不活動"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǐ bùhuódòng",
          "sense": "to put out of action",
          "word": "使不活动"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ふかっぱつにする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "fukappatsuni-suru",
          "sense": "to put out of action",
          "word": "不活発にする"
        },
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to put out of action",
          "word": "whakakaurapa"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/"
    }
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  "word": "inactivate"
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  "etymology_text": "inactive + -ate or in- + activate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inactivates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inactivating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inactivated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "inactivated",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "deactivate"
    },
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      "word": "disactivate"
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        "To make inactive."
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        "(transitive) To make inactive."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to put out of action",
      "word": "使不活動"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǐ bùhuódòng",
      "sense": "to put out of action",
      "word": "使不活动"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふかっぱつにする",
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      "roman": "fukappatsuni-suru",
      "sense": "to put out of action",
      "word": "不活発にする"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to put out of action",
      "word": "whakakaurapa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inactivate"
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