"deactivate" meaning in English

See deactivate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˌdiːˈæktɪveɪt/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deactivate.wav [UK] Forms: deactivate [canonical], deactivates [third-person, singular], deactivated [past], deactivated [past, participle], deactivating [present, participle]
Etymology: de- + activate Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|de|activate}} de- + activate Head templates: {{verb|deactivat|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. To deactivate means to make something not active.
    Sense id: simple-deactivate-en-verb-yWPBu3iA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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