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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: release from military service or remove from the active list of military service [syn: demobilize, inactivate, demobilise] [ant: call up, mobilise, mobilize, rally]
2: make inactive; "they deactivated the file" [syn: inactivate, deactivate] [ant: activate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1906 to make inactive <chemicals to inactivate viruses> • inactivation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. make inactive or inoperative. Derivatives: inactivation n.

Moby Thesaurus

bugger, cripple, de-energize, debilitate, disable, disenable, drain, enfeeble, hamstring, hors de combat, incapacitate, kibosh, lame, maim, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wreck