inactuate

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verb

To put into action; to activate.

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Meanings

verbinactuate (third-person singular simple present inactuates, present participle inactuating, simple past and past participle inactuated)

present singular third person inactuates · participle present inactuating · participle past inactuated · past inactuated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo put into action; to activate.

    For the plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body.

    1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises
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APA

inactuate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inactuate

MLA

“inactuate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inactuate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inactuate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inactuate.

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