Deactivate vs Deactivated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between deactivate and deactivated

is that deactivate is to make something inactive or no longer effective while deactivated is past tense of deactivate.

* de-activate *

(deactivat)

(ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective

to prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme)

to remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service

(head)

(deactivate)

* de-activate *

(deactivat)

(ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective

to prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme)

to remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service