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Inactivate vs Inactivator - What's the difference?

inactivate | inactivator |

As a verb inactivate

is to make inactive.

As a noun inactivator is

that which inactivates.

inactivate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make inactive.

    • References

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

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    inactivator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which inactivates