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adjective

as in unusable

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verb

past tense of deactivate
as in killed
to cause to stop functioning deactivate the machine carefully, or you'll risk an electric shock

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Recent Examples of deactivated
Adjective
In people with the natural mutation, every cell in the body has the deactivated ANGPTL3 gene. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 Authorities discovered 113 vials, with some testing positive for deactivated monkeypox virus. — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 June 2026 Unlike brewer's yeast, which is activated, nutritional yeast is a deactivated or inactive strain of the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae. — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2026 While the total number of accounts across platforms is unknown, Inman Grant said the number of deactivated or restricted accounts was encouraging. — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026 So my mother could wear the transmitter in its deactivated state. — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2016
Verb
According to DeFlock, at least 100 cities have deactivated the cameras or canceled contracts with Flock or similar companies. — Meg Anderson, NPR, 21 Aug. 2026 There was ShotSpotter coverage where Bautista was found, but the system was deactivated at the time. — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 The account has been deactivated and was subsequently banned by the social media platform, which noted that the content of his livestream related to self-harm violated TikTok’s community guidelines. — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 Landon deactivated her personal and campaign Facebook pages in June after the election. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 After the original company shuttered in 2018, its website was deactivated. — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 30 July 2026 Owners Graziella and Giuseppe Luppino opened their SoFlo restaurant in February 2007 after operating the original location in New York, according to its website, which is now deactivated. — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026 The government initially reported more than 5 million children had accounts removed, deactivated or restricted after the ban became law. — ABC News, 3 July 2026 Remember, millions of social media accounts were deactivated. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deactivated
  1. unusable
  2. killed
  3. useless
  4. shut off
  5. ineffective
  6. stuck
  7. deadlocked
  8. unworkable
Adjective
  • Phoenix Semiconductor engineers helped NAVAIR recover a supply of unusable legacy chips for a safety-critical system on the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • John Gruber, a tech blogger, posited that Claude would now more readily default to watermarked words, rather than unleash the full scope of its linguistic range, which might result in lower-quality text, or in some cases unusable prose.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of unusable
Verb
  • Rob and Michelle Reiner were killed on December 14, 2025, and Nick is charged with two counts of murder.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Son of a partisan fighter The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia's disintegration began in 1991.
    — Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of killed
Adjective
  • Leading models aren’t completely useless at handling Cantonese.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Built-ins designed for Pinterest, not your daily routine, will quickly look dated and feel useless.
    — Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of useless
Verb
  • The company says the feature will detect officers’ abnormal search activity and shut off their access until an agency administrator can review it.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • In people with this gene mutation — which experts say applies to about 1 in 250 people in the United States — one or both copies of ANGPTL3 is shut off.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of shut off
Adjective
  • That was less about Payne and more about the ineffective passing game.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2026
  • But one early research study published in June shows the ban, which took effect in December 2025, has been ineffective.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of ineffective
Verb
  • After being stuck open in the rain, fans cheered when the roof closed.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Kohl’s decided in 2016 to close one of its big box stores in Roswell, but no one knew the building’s fate would be stuck in purgatory for the next decade.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of stuck
Adjective
  • Trump has publicly stepped back from efforts to make diplomatic progress with Iran, facing deadlocked attempts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and intensifying questions about the toll an unpopular war has taken on the US military.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The plea comes days after a judge declared a mistrial in Rinderknecht’s case after jurors became deadlocked, PEOPLE previously reported.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of deadlocked
Adjective
  • The company has said the design changes the states seek are technically unworkable and would compromise the value and utility of its products.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The county education office and the state’s Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team tell district officials their plan is unworkable, and the squabble continues.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of unworkable

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“Deactivated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deactivated. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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