Crossword clues for inactivate
inactivate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
inactivate \inactivate\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. inactivated; p. pr. & vb. n. inactivating.] to make inactive; as, boiling will inactivate most enzymes; acetylation of the antibiotic inactivated it.
Syn: deactivate.
Note: To inactivate an enzyme or chemical usually renders it permanently inactive; to inactivate a machine (as by turning a switch) may be reversible, and for machines and devices, the term deactivate is usually used. The distinction is worth preserving.
Wiktionary
vb. To make inactive.
WordNet
v. release from military service or remove from the active list of military service [syn: demobilize, demobilise] [ant: call up]
make inactive; "they deactivated the file" [syn: deactivate] [ant: activate]
Usage examples of "inactivate".
But too much of it can cause aging of the immune system, perhaps by inactivating the cells that defend you.
And the lyonization process, which inactivates one X chromosome in a female, almost always inactivates the structurally damaged one in cases like this, which means that, unlike males with the same problem, they survive.
The next neurone in the nerve gets the signal, fires, and is also briefly inactivated.
Alpha particles should shove them out of the way with equal ease, and if positrons make up the brain paths, shoving them away disrupts the brain paths and inactivates the robots.
Once I blocked the exit, however, energy piled up within the lobes at once and, in a tiny fraction of a second, the temperature had risen to the point where the brain protein inactivated explosively and it was dead.
If all robots on the estate are inactivated and all power is off, Ruler Bander must be dead.
If it's inactivated, or if she sees anything she doesn't like, the full recording can go over the Net to Central at once.
The bacteria can be filtered out, the toxin inactivated by formaldehyde and the toxoid (inactivated toxin) concentrated.
I fetched her down by inactivating the ghost and switching to a preset landing mode.
Until such time as a means of completely inactivating it can be devised, it has been decided to send it offworld, where it cannot fall into the wrong hands and cannot raise again its own specific dangers.
We even had a reasonable discussion just the other day-no shouting, no recrimination-about her delay in inactivating the Guardian Robots.
The ship told Angel that the shrines were clearly some kind of information processing system, but most were inactivated, and those still active were functionally compromised.
My cure inactivates the poisonous substance in your bodies not just for four weeks.