inactivate

Other forms of inactivate

past tense

inactivated·

present participle

inactivating·

third person

inactivates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inactivate

What does inactivate mean?

inactivate means "release from military service or remove from the active list of military service". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inactivate?

inactivate has 4 syllables: in-ac-ti-vate. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈnæktɪˌveɪt/.

What is another word for inactivate?

Close synonyms include demobilize, demobilise, deactivate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inactivate?

The recorded antonyms are activate.

Is inactivate a common word?

inactivate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inactivate?

12 words rhyme with inactivate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.