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inactivate, v.|ɪnˈæktɪveɪt|
[f. inactive a. + -ate3.]
trans. To render inactive. So inˈactivated ppl. a.
1906Jrnl. Physiol. XXXIV. p. xxxvi, If only the decomposition of the substrate is considered, heat inactivates enzymes completely. Ibid., The presence of inactivated enzyme has a marked influence on the reaction between active enzyme and substrate. 1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. ix. 189 When unaccustomed proteins enter their system, they [sc. higher animals] can..destroy or inactivate them. 1949Jane's Fighting Ships 1949–50 358 She has been ‘inactivated’, and is laid up in a state of preservation as a potential fighting ship. 1955Times 11 June 6/4 It said that the vaccine is composed of three types of viruses, mixed together after they had been inactivated or killed, but in some cases live viruses were found in the final mixture after tests. 1962Lancet 5 May 941/1 The pattern of serological response to inactivated poliovirus vaccines has been..well documented. 1971J. Philips Escape a Killer (1972) ii. ii. 136 The moment we inactivate the fence, we sound an alarm.
Also inactiˈvation, the process of inactivating.
1906Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 4) 353/2 Inactivation, the destruction of the activity of a serum by the action of heat or other means. 1936Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXVI. 394 We shall employ the term ‘impulse’ in describing our experiments as implying the conscious activation and inactivation of the motor apparatus. 1946Nature 27 July 121/1 The primary factor in heat damage seems to be an inactivation of the cell. 1968Economist 6 July 16/3 Does the splendid nonsense word coined by the Americans, the ‘inactivation’ of Khe Sanh, signal another step in de-escalation? |