INACTIVATE

inactivate, deactivate

(verb) make inactive; “they deactivated the file”

demobilize, inactivate, demobilise

(verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

inactivate (third-person singular simple present inactivates, present participle inactivating, simple past and past participle inactivated)

(transitive) To make inactive.

Anagrams

• vaticinate

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

21 April 2025

ENCYCLOPEDIA

(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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