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# deactivate

«deactivate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to turn it off or stop it from working** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (deactivate, deactivates, deactivated, deactivating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To deactivate something is to turn it off or stop it from working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#m1)

2) To deactivate an account is to close it or pause it so it cannot be used. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and computing: deactivate an alarm, deactivate a social media account. In action stories, heroes deactivate bombs or traps. In science, heat can deactivate some substances, like germs or enzymes. Opposite: activate.

### examples

- Mum deactivated the burglar alarm when we got home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#x1)
- The agent had ten seconds to deactivate the bomb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#x2)
- You can deactivate your account in the settings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#x3)
- The robot was deactivated for the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#x4)
- Cooking deactivates many germs in food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#x5)
- Don't deactivate the smoke alarm — it keeps you safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: deactivation. Prefix «de-» means undo, as in defrost, decode. Opposite: activate.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deactivate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deactivate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.