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Deactivate

🔄 Synonyms of "Deactivate"

1 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
inactivateverb	(transitive) To make inactive.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
activateverb	(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
inactivateverb	(transitive) To make inactive.
neutralizeverb	(transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
decommissionverb	To take out of service or to render unusable.
neutraliseverb	Non-Oxford British English standard form of neutralize. [(transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.]
defuseverb	(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
deselectverb	(transitive) To not select; to rule out of selection.
releaseverb	(transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
killverb	(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
inhibitverb	(transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
interruptverb	(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
uncheckverb	(graphical user interface, US, Canada) To remove a checkmark.
clearingnoun	The act or process of making or becoming clear.
teardownverb	Misspelling of tear down. [(transitive) To demolish.]
cutoffnoun	The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
disallowverb	To refuse to allow.
offverb	(transitive, slang) To kill.
disableverb	(chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
disablementnoun	(formal) The action of disabling or the state of being disabled.
defeatverb	(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
disablednoun	Having a disability.