Is "inactivate" really a word? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2011年2月17日 · There are 88 examples of inactivate in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and 102 for deactivate, showing they occur with about equal frequency. Most of the examples for inactivate , though, are used in a biological context, talking about inactivating viruses, genes, and “potent mutagenic compounds”, for example.
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2020年5月19日 · Is it "inactive contacts", or "deactivated contacts"? My teacher told me that using "inactive contacts" is incorrect, and I should use "deactivated contacts" instead for the contacts who don't seem...
Can I use “disactivate” instead of “deactivate”? [closed]
2016年3月11日 · Seems like “disactivate” is almost never used. In Corpus of Contemporary American English “deactivate” is used 137 times, “inactivate” is used 105 times (almost all of them in biology contexts), “disactivate” isn't used at all. OneLook has only one reference, to …