as in to kill
to cause to stop functioning
deactivate the machine carefully, or you'll risk an electric shock
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Recent Examples of deactivate
In the latest battle, Black’s lawyers on June 30 filed a request for a preliminary injunction asking the Tennessee Department of Corrections to ensure that his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is deactivated in the moments before his execution.
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Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 3 July 2025
The suspicious accounts have since been deactivated and the agency has disabled the ability to make new accounts from foreign IP addresses.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 July 2025
The devices must also give consumers the option of deactivating such features, unless that action would render the device useless.
—Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2025
Verve’s innovative gene-editing technology, which permanently deactivates the PCSK9 gene to address high cholesterol, represents a breakthrough approach to cardiovascular disease treatment.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 3 July 2025
The suspicious accounts have since been deactivated and the agency has disabled the ability to make new accounts from foreign IP addresses.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 July 2025
The devices must also give consumers the option of deactivating such features, unless that action would render the device useless.
—Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2025
Verve’s innovative gene-editing technology, which permanently deactivates the PCSK9 gene to address high cholesterol, represents a breakthrough approach to cardiovascular disease treatment.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deactivate
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The man accused of pulling the trigger in a Christmas Day shooting that killed two Milwaukee teenagers is no longer on the run.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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The push for tools to address overdoses has taken on more urgency as deaths from synthetic opioids have skyrocketed in Texas and across the U.S. Fentanyl was identified as the likely cause of a surge of 79 overdoses in Austin last spring, which killed nine people.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
23 July 2025
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Turn signaling and hazard lights have been added to the headlight/braking tail-light recipe, and riders now get to check metrics on a detachable 3.5-inch color display instead of monochrome.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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Another video showed the same vehicle braking hard after passing a police car.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 July 2025
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Once exploited, the flaw allows attackers to shut off Secure Boot entirely.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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But authorities learned from a local Toyota shop that the car automatically shuts off after an hour of inactivity.—
Cristian Santana,
NBC news,
9 July 2025
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“Deactivate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deactivate. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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