Deactivated vs Inactivated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between deactivated and inactivated

is that deactivated is past tense of deactivate while inactivated is past tense of inactivate.

(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

(head)

(inactivate)

(en-verb)

To make inactive.

"'Computer inactivated, Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'" - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, ''The Mote in God's Eye , 1974