† unmechanizev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To cause to stop functioning; to render inoperative or ineffective.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > make inactive [verb (transitive)]
unactive1639
stun1700
unmechanize1761
paralyse1764
hang1778
benumb1789
inactivate1901
disable1932
stultify1958
deactivate1970
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xix. 131 What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame,..has not fallen upon thy head.
1796 J. Cottle Poems 102 The midnight bowl he lov'd to share, Yet never cloud it rais'd..; But only (till unmechaniz'd by death) Kept the pipe vocal to the player's breath.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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