deactivateverb [ T ]
uk/ˌdiˈæk.tɪ.veɪt/us/ˌdiˈæk.tɪ.veɪt/to cause something to be no longer active or effective:
All chemical weapons facilities will be deactivated.
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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deactivation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌdiː.æk.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/us/diˌæk.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/