How to Use deactivate in a Sentence

deactivate

verb
Definition of deactivatenext
Synonyms for deactivatenext
  • Lift your foot off the throttle and all the cylinders deactivate.
    — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Mildenberg called for Bernot, who is white, to be deactivated as a police officer.
    — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 5 July 2018
  • The post was immediately flagged by Snapchat, and the teen's account was deactivated.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2024
  • During a trip to Toronto shortly after he was deactivated as a player, Suzuki went to a party store to find one.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • The companies can deactivate a driver for violating their service terms by choosing excessively long routes.
    — Greg Bensinger, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
  • That’s why the Left feels the need to deactivate the feeling of unity that is born of tragic times.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The electric field deactivates, and the stack cools down; the pump pushes the oil back through the stack to the other, cold end, and the PST absorbs some of its heat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The new address was released to the public, but nobody thought to deactivate the old one.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • And then if you do get stung, getting in hot water, like a hot tub can deactivate it.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • The initial plan was to deactivate three fire engines for six days at a time in an effort to save $5 million.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • But cancer cells have many strategies to hide from T cells, fend them off, or deactivate them.
    — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Guests must be informed and given the option to deactivate them.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
  • On the last jump, players must grab a plug while midair in a leap of faith to successfully deactivate the satellite.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The tweet has since been deleted and her account has been deactivated.
    — Lynzy Billing, ELLE, 24 Mar. 2023
  • This smart water bottle claims to deactivate up to 99% of bacteria and to self-clean via a UV function.
    — Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, the research shows the statues were defaced to deactivate the life form believed to be within them.
    — Dima Amro, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Tap or click here to see how to deactivate your social media profiles for good.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The late addition of hops to cold wort during the dry-hopping process means those key enzymes aren't deactivated by the high heat of the boiling stage.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Concrete bunkers were built there to store munitions, but the depot was deactivated in the 1960s.
    — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
  • To deactivate the cling, swipe a dryer sheet on the problem surface areas.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
  • After trading for him, he was deactivated for the final 2½ months of the season.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In 2016, the city began deactivating accounts that had been dormant for two years.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
  • So the first step is to remove or deactivate those caps by washing a solution over the nascent microarray.
    — Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Even so, Levine said Ballad would not deactivate the five-letter search.
    — Brett Kelman, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Though the stars showed support for DeBose, criticism about the rap led the Oscar winner to deactivate her X account.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • But there is only one reason for this Peter Parker to take off or deactivate the mask in battle.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The company is using a form of gene therapy to deactivate the transthyretin gene in the livers of ATTR patients.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Want to deactivate your Facebook account, but are afraid of losing your precious videos?
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Those with mutations that deactivate Nav1.7 feel no pain at all.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
  • It has since been deleted, and Bryan has deactivated his X account entirely.
    — Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024

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